Detailed 1.9.8 Todo

• fix bugs (all)
  • AltGr in win32 ide doesn't work anymore after an external tool is called
  • test suite
  • web bugs
• fix lazarus sparc/linux (Florian/Peter) - postponed to 1.9.10
• fix lazarus x86_64/linux (Florian/Peter) - postponed to 1.9.10
• fix ide powerpc/linux (Florian/Jonas/Marco)
• fix ide powerpc/macosx (Jonas/Olle) Seems to work except for terminal glitches.
  • already works, except for some graphic glitches on the user output screen, and no gdb support
• fix ide debugger sparc/linux (Peter/Florian)
• ppc386 man page must become ppcppc for PowerPC, ppcsparc for Sparc etc
  • fpc man page is also more or less 386 specific, and does not mention Mac OS (X)
• IDE help files (Michael)
• unique types (Florian)
• macpas macros (Olle)
• fix arm/linux (Florian)
• support gtk2 linking (Peter)
• fix [powerpc aix calling conventions](http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/MachORuntime/PowerPCConventions/chapter_3_section_5.html) (Jonas/Peter)
  • remember to test records of size 3 (may not load extra byte after it, could cause a crash)
• fix afterconstruction, webbug 3101 (Peter)
• Go32v2 specific issues
  • fix debugging in go32v2 ide
  • fix GO32v2 mouse cursor (FVision)
  • fix "empty" buttons (FVision - GO32v2 only?!) (Marco: I've seen them from time to time too in *nix or win32. I think it was a temporary bug)
  • fix DiskSize/DiskFree for large drives (> 2GB) for GO32v2 running under WinXX (Tomas)
  • fix Go32v2 SIGFPE problems
• OS/2 target RTL todos
  • 64-bit file functions under new OS/2 versions (Tomas/Yuri)
  • EA functions - GetLongName/GetShortName, SetDefaultOS2FileType/SetDefaultOS2Creator (Tomas/Yuri) no time - postponed to 2.0 :-(
  • port access without EMX (Tomas/Yuri) no time - postponed to 2.0 :-(
  • exception handler (Tomas/Yuri) no time - postponed to 2.0 :-(
  • Unix compatible sockets unit (Tomas/Yuri) no time - postponed to 2.0 :-(
• fix EMX target (Tomas) no time - postponed to 2.0 :-(
• Packaging
  • Win32 include ld.exe and windres.exe from 1.0.10
  • fix make sourcezip FPC_VERSION (Peter)
  • docs installation in separate dir under win32
  • win32 install over existing snapshot should work. (works if export first)
• test packages
• fix language files
  • German (Florian)
  • Dutch (Jonas/Michael/Peter/Marco)
  • French (Jonas/Michael)
  • Russia (?)
  • Polish (?)
  • Spanish (?)
• Review docs according to mac specific things (Olle)

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