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FPC 2.4.2RC1 (Announce)

posted by marcov, 04.11.2010, 09:49

> > Well, afaik there were no reports of wide testing with the new tools, so
> I
> > guess the mainteners stuck to known good versions.
>
> Wide testing??? Um, stable 2.4.0 didn't work with 2.19, so you can't test
> with that. So unless a ton of people tested the snapshots (obviously not),
> you won't bother?? Hooray! :-(
I won't bother anyway. I'm not the dos platform maintainer (there isn't any, some people do fixes as they come by them, but that's it). Keep in mind that I'm here because of TUI interest, not dos in the strictest sense.

> EDIT: Well I thought you guys said you fixed it. Go figure, no it
> doesn't work (tested with AS and LD from DJGPP's 2.19). Gives a strange
> warning, still "compiles", but the .EXE is only 3 kb (obviously broken,
> normal is around 47 kb), and (obviously) doesn't run, causes an exception
> (XP Home SP3).
So the current ones work, the new ones are broken, and we received no fixes from interested Dos users. What could we do other than shipping the old ones?

> At the very least, as I've said before, you can't unpack these .EXEs, which
> means they will always run slower (2x ?) on XP's NTVDM than otherwise.
> There are other issues, but I can't remember offhand.
XP is not a target for the dos distribution. The Go32v2 target is meant for Dos and Win98. On NT systems, use the win32 or win64 distribution

> Note that I can (and will) rebuild BinUtils 2.17 (yet again) for you guys
> if you want, which should at least avoid any silly UPX problems.
> (BTW, since I didn't download the entire thing, you may wish to know that
> UPX 3.07 is latest. Haven't personally rebuilt that as UPX-UCL, only older
> 3.05, but since you never cared for using that instead anyways, I guess
> it's moot.)
Sure, if I have my way it disappears from the distro. Something everybody must decide for themselves, but I don't see a reason for FPC to package is (which sounds like a recommendation), and worse, to do version maintenance on it.

> > Do you know who has extensively tested FPC with it ? (for more than a
> > befunge interpreter?)
>
> Both CWS and I tested r7 with various things (
The trouble is that there is no group of heavy users for FPC/Go32v2 anymore that can validate any of such changes. And the current set IS validated by a set of users that used it every day.

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