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Linux build of File Date Comparison Utility released.

Hot on the heels of the release of v2.3.0 of CompFileDate , my file date comparison utility, comes v2.4.0. The main thing about this release is that I've managed to build a Linux version. That's a first for me. This release ends 30+ years of Windows only programming! There's a new script that creates debug builds for all OS targets, to save having to build them all separately from the IDE, but no other new functionality. You can see all the changes in this version's change log . 👉 Download v2.4.0 from GitHub And here we are, running on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (on Windows 11 WSL2) Don't tell anyone, but there might just be a 2.5.0 release before too long, because I had an idea for a couple of new options just as I was pushing out this release. But then again, there might not.

Release v2.3.0 of my File Date Comparison utility

What a time I've had since Christmas: a mild cold, then a weird dose of flu followed by a nasty cold that I can't shake off. Marvellous way to start the year. Still, when I'm not well I often do a bit of coding to take my mind of things, so here's a new release of CompFileDate that compares file dates! It's very simple. It can compare either file creation or modification dates of two files using any of the <, <=, =, <>, > or >= operators. It returns 0 if the comparison fails, 1 if it succeeds and >= 100 on error. It can optionally follow Windows shortcuts (i.e. .lnk files). That's it. It's designed for use it batch files. The program is open source (MPL 2.0) with source available from the ddabapps/compfiledate repo on GitHub. You will also find installation and usage instructions in that repo's Docs/ReadMe.txt file and can read about this release's changes in CHANGELOG.md . 👉 Download v2.3.0 from GitHub

Finally there - BDiff v1.0.0 has been released

Well, it's been a long haul to get this little diff and patch suite from v0.2.x to v1.0. 22 years and 2 days ago I released my first attempt at translating Stefan Reuther's bdiff / bpatch utilities from C to Pascal. Stefan's original code was first published in 1999. This was v0.2.1(pas). Then, 1 day short of 2½ years ago the first v1.0 beta was released. 1 year, 1 month and 1 week ago the release candidate was made available. In the related blog post I said I was almost there, "almost there" meaning "about a year away", obviously. And today, v1.0.0 has finally been let out into the wild. Slow and steady does it! What's the difference between the release candidate and the final release? Not much. There are no new features, just a bit of refactoring, extra error checking and a new test. I've moved over to compiling with Delphi 13 & tweaked the docs. If you're not sure what these utilities do, then read the man pages: BDiff / BPatc...

System Information Unit v5.33.0 released

Despite continually threatening to retire the System Information Unit , here's an update The update was prompted by GitHub user weirdo12 who submitted a pull request that added $EXTERNALSYM compiler directives to make the code usable with C++ Builder. His code is included in this release. While adding the above code I decided I'd better update TPJOSInfo with details of all the changes to Windows 10 and 11 since the end of last year. The result of a very boring day poring over this year's Windows builds is that the class now detects Windows 11 version 25H2 and has provisional support for the previews of the forthcoming version 26H1 released so far. 🠊 Get the new version (5.33.0) from the GitHub release page . The VCL & FMX versions of the demo program's have been updated to display info about Windows 11 25H2 and 26H1. So will this be the last release? I doubt it because I'm planning on doing a year end update and maybe a revision once Windows 11 26H1 is rel...

Code Snippets Collection Updated to v2.3.0

Did I say that the previous post was the last concerning changes in response to the release of Delphi 13? Well I lied! I remembered that my Code Snippets Collection didn't have any information about whether snippets compiled with Delphi 13, so I've been through all 700+ of them and checked. All the results are now in the database. The collection specification docs needed to be updated as a result of adding this support, so that's been done too. And the version number got a minor version bump because of the change. In addition to that I discovered some other changes I'd made to the develop branch back in April, so these were rolled into this release too. There's a couple of new snippets, along with a whole bunch of new unit tests. For full details see the change log for v2.3.0 . ✅ Download release v2.3.0 from GitHub . To install it into CodeSnip , select the Database | Install or Update DelphiDabbler Snippets Database menu option and the resulting wizard guide...

CodeSnip 4.27.0 released with Delphi 13 support

And finally ... after a few updates to reflect the release of Delphi 13 Florence , last but not least we have an update to CodeSnip . This program can test compile snippets with any Delphi compiler installed on the host computer, along with Free Pascal. But every time there's a new Delphi release CodeSnip has to be modified to be able to use it. I wish there was a config file to update, but it's not that simple with this ancient code base! So, CodeSnip 4.27.0 knows about the existence of Delphi 13, can use it for test compilation, can record the results of such compilations in its databases and can emit code that selectively turns warnings on and off for the compiler. That's the only new feature of this release. The docs and help file have been suitably updated. ➣ Download the v4.27.0 release from GitHub . BTW the first time you run this new version after installing Delphi 13, CodeSnip will notice and will offer to configure itself to use the new compiler, unless you'v...