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Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released (Announce)

posted by Steve Homepage E-mail, US, 15.09.2007, 09:36

> > I tried dos220_pre2. First problem: Accepts being installed on drive C:\
> > only. Couldn't find other drives.
>
> Do you get "The drive D: is not valid."? Press "n" twice to continue. If
> it doesn't help, you have to tell more about your OS and your partitions.
OK, that worked - in effect, it can be told to install on an invalid drive, and it will. BTW, the problem occurred with both NTFS and FAT drives.

> > Most EXEs (all but CWSDPMI) are compressed with UPX, some with v1,25,
> > some with v1.91 (including the suppplied v1.25 itself).
>
> But this is not especially related to release 2.2.0. I agree to the FPC
> core team to change that for later versions, but not for 2.2.0.
>
> > Includes Info-ZIP v2.2
>
> see above
Understood. A strange situation - is compressing UPX with a later version of itself a new form of encryption?

> > IDE: No Help.
>
> That requires `doc-html.zip', which is part of still pending
> `dos220_full.zip'.
OK, I downloaded doc-html.tar.gz, with same contents, both separately available. The HTML files install in the IDE, but look like crap - viewer is a narrow box, cuts off line ends.

I've never used FreePas before, and must say I'm not encouraged by the IDE - it needs a lot of work. Considering how old the project is, it's ridiculous. What else is lurking under the surface?

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