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FPC 2.6.2 released (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 28.02.2013, 20:43

> > I've been preoccupied with the flu this past week, ugh. So I may be slow
> in
> > replying. (Maybe that's a good thing??) Anything in particular you want
> > done or in what order? Announce for FreeDOS? Mirror to iBiblio?
>
> I don't think mirrors are necessary, FPC is already mirrored on
> sourceforge.

So is FreeDOS, and I agree SF.net is pretty reliably robust, but usually FD likes to keep necessary tools mirrored locally too (at least in theory). Though yes, I admit, there isn't officially a lot of Pascal (or FPC-specific) stuff in FD, but some does exist.

> I usually mail J. Hall myself, but haven't yet, if you can forward him the
> release message, that would be nice. (and I won't have to dig up the email
> address :)

Sure, but I'm not sure exactly which bit the "release message" actually is. Your post here was pretty minimal! But I'll be sure to tell him (though likely he'll only post a news update, esp. if I don't beat him to it).

> > Make (newer) FDNPKG package?
>
> I don't even know what that is

The new "Network" (packet-driver aware) Packager by Mateusz Viste (C, DJGPP + Watt-32). IIRC, I was emailing you and him both a while back (maybe indirectly, all I remember offhand was the FPC installer DiskFree bug). IIRC, I made a newer "package" (.ZIP with special layout) with 2.6.0 instead of old 2.0.4.

> > Or just general tests from the real experts (Laaca,
> > Robert, et al.)?
>
> Users in general, and contributors specially indeed.

Perhaps just a general email thread on freedos-user or freedos-devel would be best.

P.S. I should probably email CWS too, as it uses his CWSDPMI r7 (he's too busy to finish up fixes, but he did some minor hacking over the holidays). Though I have no good examples of memory testing for him. Perhaps I need to whip up something (GetMem, FreeMem ??).

Complete thread:

• FPC 2.6.2 released - marcov, 26.02.2013, 10:09 (Announce)
  • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 27.02.2013, 10:49
    • FPC 2.6.2 released - marcov, 28.02.2013, 13:46
      • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 28.02.2013, 20:43
        • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 02.03.2013, 18:57
          • FPC 2.6.2 released - marcov, 03.03.2013, 00:21
            • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 03.03.2013, 02:36
              • FPC 2.6.2 released - marcov, 04.03.2013, 22:23
          • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 14.03.2013, 17:16
            • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 28.03.2013, 00:35
    • FPC 2.6.2 released - rr, 03.03.2013, 21:08
  • FPC 2.6.2 released - Laaca, 18.03.2013, 12:00
    • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 19.03.2013, 00:08
      • FPC 2.6.2 released - Arjay, 19.03.2013, 01:48
      • FPC 2.6.2 released - Laaca, 19.03.2013, 11:40
        • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 21.03.2013, 17:26