On 03 May 2009, at 12:44, Marco van de Voort wrote:
Well, Lazarus is currently amassing large handcoded UTF8 ansistring
codebases, something I don't think that is healthy. If unicode is
postponed
to the next major release, it will be long, very long before this is
cleaned
up.
Waiting with releasing 2.4 and spending time on 2.2.x fixes releases
(instead of on a 2.4 release) is not going to speed up the
implementation of full unicode support either.
How far do you think we are from releasing 2.4 then? Maybe plan an
alpha
release to see where we stand?
I'm not aware of any big problems with 2.4 at this point (relative to
2.2.4, or in general, except for what has been mentioned). As far as
I'm concerned, it would be perfectly fine to split off a 2.4 branch
today, and to release a first beta. I don't know what the situation is
regarding the database components though (and maybe other things with
which I have little to do).
ere is some sense in that yes. Still, I keep getting the feeling
then that
we don't deliver on the 2.4 promises then, and worse that the early
2.4
delays the impotant features more than that it helps bring them to
users
faster.
I think it is simply a bad idea to promise things before the work has
been done. None of us can predict on what they will work or how much
time they will have. As far as I am concerned, we should simply
release when the result is stable (as in: no regressions since the
previous release, so the new FPC release will be better than the
previous one -- bar any missed bugs of course) and a certain amount of
changes have been made (how many/which depends on the nature of the
changes, the situation, external factors, etc).
Jonas
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