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Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released (Announce)

posted by rr  , Berlin, Germany, 14.09.2007, 13:39

> I tried dos220_pre2. First problem: Accepts being installed on drive C:\
> only. Couldn't find other drives.

Do you get "The drive D: is not valid."? Press "n" twice to continue. If it doesn't help, you have to tell more about your OS and your partitions.

> Most EXEs (all but CWSDPMI) are compressed with UPX, some with v1,25, some
> with v1.91 (including the suppplied v1.25 itself). UPX v1.25 does not
> decompress files that are compressed with v1.91.

But this is not especially related to release 2.2.0. I agree to the FPC core team to change that for later versions, but not for 2.2.0.

> Includes Info-ZIP v2.2 - going to current v2.32 would be a big improvement
> (built-in encryption, etc.)

see above

> IDE: No Help.

That requires `doc-html.zip', which is part of still pending `dos220_full.zip'.

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Complete thread:

• Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - Rugxulo, 10.09.2007, 22:41 (Announce)
  • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - Steve, 10.09.2007, 23:14
    • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - Rugxulo, 11.09.2007, 00:52
      • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - Rugxulo, 11.09.2007, 04:01
        • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - Steve, 11.09.2007, 07:24
          • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - DOS386, 11.09.2007, 07:27
      • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - rr, 11.09.2007, 15:43
        • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - Rugxulo, 12.09.2007, 17:47
          • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - DOS386, 13.09.2007, 02:25
            • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - rr, 13.09.2007, 10:13
              • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - DOS386, 16.09.2007, 00:16
            • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - Rugxulo, 13.09.2007, 22:10
    • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - rr, 13.09.2007, 22:08
      • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - Steve, 14.09.2007, 12:44
        • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - rr, 14.09.2007, 13:39
          • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - Steve, 15.09.2007, 09:36
            • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - Rugxulo, 16.09.2007, 21:45
              • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - rr, 16.09.2007, 22:01
                • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - Rugxulo, 16.09.2007, 22:14
                  • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - rr, 16.09.2007, 22:26
                    • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - Rugxulo, 16.09.2007, 22:30
                • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - DOS386, 17.09.2007, 01:27
                  • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - Steve, 17.09.2007, 11:35
                  • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - rr, 17.09.2007, 20:56
                    • faux DOS animosity - Rugxulo, 21.09.2007, 02:16
                      • faux DOS animosity - rr, 21.09.2007, 09:52
                    • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - yeah - DOS386, 16.10.2007, 01:41
                      • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - yeah - rr, 16.10.2007, 09:47
                  • why DOS? - Rugxulo, 17.09.2007, 21:25
        • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - UPX - DOS386, 17.09.2007, 01:42
      • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - rr, 01.10.2007, 10:15
  • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - DOS386, 11.09.2007, 06:14
  • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - Laaca, 15.09.2007, 12:44
    • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 released - DOS386, 16.09.2007, 00:17
  • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 and Blocek - Laaca, 16.09.2007, 14:24
    • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 and Blocek - DOS386, 17.09.2007, 01:36
      • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 and Blocek - Laaca, 23.09.2007, 10:38
        • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 and Blocek - DOS386, 16.10.2007, 01:44
        • Free Pascal version 2.2.0 and Blocek - DOS386, 24.10.2007, 02:34