----- Original Message ----- From: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, June 22, 2007 10:04 am Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] CheckSynchronize
> On 6/22/07, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is not that we can't use the release, but we (at least I) > rather risk a possible instability rather than have some some known > bugs and limitations. And that I want to invest time in it by > distributing patched versions of fpc. I think this is similar to > why there is debian for people who value stability and ubuntu for > people who want faster bug fixes or new features. > > Are the bugs really that severe that people can't wait for 2.2.2? > Sure they can wait. Lazarus users are really patient people, they are waiting for more than three years now for Lazarus 1.0.0. > I think that maintaining such separate branch isn't a good idea. If > the fixes haven't been commited They have been committed, but have not been merged to the fixes branch. > because they can have unprevisible > side effects, releasing Lazarus with them may just as well > fix a bug for some users, but add new bugs for lot's of other people, > and then make this Lazarus release unusable for lot's of people. > Any fix can have unprevisible side effects. Unless we test, we don't know the impact. Vincent _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
