User:Arny

Full name: Arny Kromić

Forum nickname: TurboRascal

IRC nick (freenode): halfword

Country: Croatia

Writings

• My take on Pascal History
• Lazarus directory permissions on Linux and Unix

From Forum to Wiki

We often get very useful answers on the Forum, for the topics which don't exist or are currently unclear on the Wiki. I'll try writing all the stuff I get as answers to my (and not only mine) questions here. So far done:

• Hardware_Access#Status_and_control - status and controls registers for the parallel port - thanks to ludob

My Fixes ToDo list

Test snapshots from the Fixes branch so to also provide Fixes releases. They would be weekly or monthly, depending on how much time I can afford. In general, I can test on Win-32 and Linux-AMD64. If necessary, I could also test on Win-x64 and Linux-x86. The OS I don't have access to is MacOS, so it would be nice if someone with a Mac would volunteer eventually ;).

The first thing I need to do is complete a testing checklist. The (some obvious) requirements for a build are:

• Can be compiled by an earlier version (I believe Snapshots already satisfy this)
• Can be recompiled by itself out of the box
• Can be recompiled to install all included packages (which don't require external components)
• Can compile projects and get working executables (include compiling new, newly saved and old projects)

Any other additions to the list would be welcome!

What about:

• Has no more than x failures (really should be x critical failures) in the compiler test suite (<fpcdir>\tests), see e.g. http://www.freepascal.org/testsuite/cgi-bin/testsuite.cgi
• Has no more than x failures (really should be x critical failures) in the database test suite (see e.g. Databases#Running_FPC_database_tests

--BigChimp 10:58, 31 August 2012 (UTC)