Detailed 2.4.0 Todo: what changed
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Title: Detailed 2.4.0 Todo
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| 1 | + | This todo is for people working on fpc to write down what they want to do till 2.4.0 is released. It's not a wishlist what shall be done. Feature requests etc. should be added to mantis. | |
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| 3 | + | ### General | |
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| 5 | + | - Document changes potentially affecting currently working code to [[User Changes 2.4.0]] (all) | |
| 6 | + | - Document regcal stack parameter order change | |
| 7 | + | - Document val change regarding the handling of \#0 | |
| 8 | + | - Use fppkg for package repository (Micha) | |
| 9 | + | - Fix bugs with [target 2.4.0](http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view_all_set.php?type=3&source_query_id=623) | |
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| 11 | + | ### Compiler | |
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| 13 | + | - ~~packages (Florian/Peter)~~ | |
| 14 | + | - ~~[[Module handling rewrite]] (Peter/Florian)~~ | |
| 15 | + | - ~~Crosscompiling to Mac OS X~~ (Marco, been done, but not end user ready) | |
| 16 | + | - dispinterfaces (Florian) | |
| 17 | + | - improve HTML rendering of IDE (Florian/Tomas(?)) | |
| 18 | + | - ~~Internal linker for ELF platforms?~~ | |
| 19 | + | - generics support (Florian) | |
| 20 | + | - Fix all testsuite failures which are in 2.1.x but not in 2.0.x (all) | |
| 21 | + | - bug fixing (all) | |
| 22 | + | - Ansistrings/widestrings should show in gdb as string, not address. We can achieve this by emitting debug information for zero terminated strings. | |
| 23 | + | - Fix -pg gprof support. | |
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| 25 | + | ### Packaging | |
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| 27 | + | - Use fpmake for building (Michael/Peter) | |
| 28 | + | - get an initial set of packages for often used pkgs. (during RC'ing?) | |
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| 30 | + | ### RTL | |
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| 32 | + | - 64-bit file support for Solaris (?) | |
| 33 | + | - 64-bit file support for MacOS (?) | |
| 34 | + | - 64-bit file support for Netwlibc (?) | |
| 35 | + | - <s>Fix get_caller_frame stuff for code without stackframes</s> (Jonas) | |
| 36 | + | - ARM badly needs mod/divide helpers in assembler | |
| 37 | + | - basic template unit (map and list) (Neli) | |
| 38 | + | - Make decision about threading in Linux (NTPL, unit libc) (bug 6280) (???, Marco is willing to help with the implementation) | |
| 39 | + | - fix internal ThreadManager inconsistencies (Ales?, March 31? - probably not) | |
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| 41 | + | ### FCL | |
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| 43 | + | - DB: Restructure the db-testsuite (Joost) | |
| 44 | + | - DB: bufdataset: implement calculated fields (Joost) | |
| 45 | + | - DB: bufdataset: implement in-memory-filtering (Joost) | |
| 46 | + | - DB: bufdataset: make it possible to use bufdataset directly, thus not only it's descendents. (like TClientDataset) (Joost) | |
| 47 | + | - DB: bufdataset: save and read datapackets as XML (Joost) | |
| 48 | + | - DB: sqldb: improve speed by fetching more then one record at a time (Joost) | |
| 49 | + | - DB: sqldb: add the ability to make plugins (Joost) | |
| 50 | + | - DB: sqldb: a backup and restore plugin for firebird (Joost) | |
| 51 | + | - DB: sqldb: revise the TSQLScript component (2.4.0 ? Joost) | |
| 52 | + | - If possible: set up a test-suite for the fcl, like the db-testsuite. In such a way thet it can be used automatically, just like the compiler test-suite (Joost) | |
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| 54 | + | ### IDE | |
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| 56 | + | - Check and modify compile options window to reflect all new 2.2 compiler options. | |
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| 58 | + | ### Documentation | |
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| 60 | + | - Update runtime error list. | |
| 61 | + | - CHM distribution. (Switch textmode IDE docs to CHM?) | |
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| 63 | + | ### Packages | |
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| 65 | + | - Packages that use widestring, but are not com related should change to tunicodestring (or maybe RTLSTRING), e.g. xmlcfg*.pp | |
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| 67 | + | --- | |
| 68 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Detailed 2.4.0 Todo", as it stood on 2013-03-17 after a change by Chronos, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* | |
| 69 | + | Category: FPC Todo |