major version to do: what changed
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Title: major version to do
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| 1 | + | This is a page for reminders with regard to release engineering and the next "major" FPC version. Mostly it is a list of reminders which deprecated functionality can be removed. | |
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| 3 | + | Usually these are reminders to review deprecated functionality, or changes that need to be done relatively late minute to ease the pain of dual-maintenance. | |
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| 5 | + | # 3.0.x (working title for 1st major release after 2.6 series) | |
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| 7 | + | - ~~Remove deprecated functions in unit "unix" - Most of these have been deprecated since before 2007.~~ | |
| 8 | + | - ~~remove deprecated functions from unixutils. (deprecated during the 2.4.0 release preparation)~~ | |
| 9 | + | - ~~sockets unit has old non of functions under ifdef. Can be removed at any time, inactive~~ | |
| 10 | + | - Linux stat record cleanup? Has been deprecated for at least the whole 2.6 cycle. | |
| 11 | + | - ~~sockets inaddr unit has non standard fieldnames from 1.0.x time in union (roughly same issue as linux stat. Has been deprecated for a while too.~~ | |
| 12 | + | - remove deprecated records and functions (shlobj) from unit Windows. | |
| 13 | + | - same for messages. | |
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| 15 | + | # 3.2.0 (2nd major release after 2.6 series) | |
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| 17 | + | - ~~consider inverting the \$R statement to become delphi compatible <http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20652> not necessary anymore considering Sven's comment.~~ | |
| 18 | + | - review all deprecations in unix/ dir again. Most are relatively unused and harmless. | |
| 19 | + | - Review deprecations in unit unix (some minor linux specific things and leftovers deprecated during 2.6 cycle) | |
| 20 | + | - remove deprecated functions from unixutils. (deprecated during the 2.6.0 release preparation) | |
| 21 | + | - do we still need fs32bit support for Linux (i386/ and unix/ directories)? | |
| 22 | + | - consider removing makefile date line. Only causes conflicts. | |
| 23 | + | - clean out old VER_ defines. Keep in mind that ver3_0 is still needed for bootstrapping | |
| 24 | + | - review various "old" files in regexpr directory | |
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| 26 | + | # 3.4.0 | |
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| 28 | + | - fpcres default | |
| 29 | + | - review various "old" files in regexpr directory | |
| 30 | + | - Consider renaming core units to their long namespaced versions | |
| 31 | + | - win/systhr.inc contains win9x ifdefs which hasn't been supported for 7 years. Remove? | |
| 32 | + | - review modeswitches for mode delphi like type handlers | |
| 33 | + | - Do we still need rtl/win32/sysinitcyg if the win32 IDE is now debuggerless ? Same for "signals" and initc. | |
| 34 | + | - do we still need to package windres ? | |
| 35 | + | - reconsider no native win64 installer policy(does softfloat now work enough?) | |
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| 38 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "major version to do", as it stood on 2024-03-03 after a change by Marcov, 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).* | |
| 39 | + | Category: FPC development |