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FPC 2.4.0 released! (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 01.01.2010, 18:28

> Happy New Year!!

Same to you.

> We have placed a new major release of the Free Pascal Compiler,
> version 2.4.0 on our ftp-servers.

Was there even an RC2? I didn't see any mention of one. So is this just RC1 renamed or a new release?

> RTL:
> * Linearly scaling multi-threaded memory manager

(DOS386): "Even in DOS???"

(heh, you know he would say that)

P.S. Some comments on the README.TXT :

> Free Pascal 2.4.0 is currently available for the following platforms:
> - GO32v2-i386

I know it's probably well-known, but this should say "DOS" somewhere, IMHO.

> - smartlinking (not yet supported under Mac OS X)

Under DOS? (doubt it but would be nice if so)

> - can create binaries running natively under both DOS and OS/2 (EMX version)

Seriously, does the EMX version even exist anymore? Last I heard I thought you were phasing out all EMX libs, DLLs, etc. Heck, at one time OpenWatcom was going to be used somewhere. (I dunno, I don't have OS/2, just curious.)

> Download distribution archive (dos222.zip for GO32v2) and unzip it into

Oops, should be dos240.zip.

> In order to make the compiler/rtl & IDE in a resonable time
> (eg <30 minutes) you'll need at least 32 MB of physical
> memory (64 MB is better), at least a 200 MHz processor and
> at least 100 MB of free disk space.

I heavily doubt that's true anymore, but if so that's quite low!!

> Some specific utilities and programs come under the license
> described in COPYING.DJ, COPYING.EMX, COPYING.RSX, license.upx
> and licensez.ip.

AFAIK, COPYING.DJ, CWSDPMI, and UPX both are pretty GPL-ish except slightly more liberal in some circumstances. EMX and RSX are both GPLv2, I think (although abandoned ... 0.9d and 5.24 are last, IIRC) but not used except in (old?) OS/2 FPC. Info-Zip is free BSD-ish license.

Complete thread:

• FPC 2.4.0 released! - marcov, 01.01.2010, 16:08 (Announce)
  • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Rugxulo, 01.01.2010, 18:28
  • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Laaca, 02.01.2010, 19:00
    • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Laaca, 11.01.2010, 08:56
  • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Rugxulo, 02.01.2010, 23:46
    • FPC 2.4.0 released! - marcov, 03.01.2010, 13:16
      • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Rugxulo, 03.01.2010, 15:30
        • FPC 2.4.0 released! - marcov, 05.01.2010, 10:42
          • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Rugxulo, 06.01.2010, 18:40
            • FPC 2.4.0 released! - marcov, 06.01.2010, 22:20
              • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Rugxulo, 06.01.2010, 23:25
                • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Laaca, 07.01.2010, 11:12
                  • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Rugxulo, 08.01.2010, 02:27
                    • FPC 2.4.0 released! - marcov, 10.01.2010, 12:54
                      • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Rugxulo, 10.01.2010, 20:13
  • FPC 2.4.0 released! old BUG's still in, DOS and non-DOS sup - DOS386, 08.01.2010, 12:17
    • FPC 2.4.0 released! - ecm, 08.01.2010, 14:26