On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:22 PM John Landmesser via lazarus <[email protected]> wrote: > For Manjaro (ArchLinux) i installed fpc-svn and fpc-src-svn from AUR > with yay and now i have a running: > > Lazarus 2.1.0 r62669 FPC 3.3.1 x86_64-linux-gtk2
I also run Manjaro Linux but I didn't know that AUR has FPC trunk. I would download it if I didn't build it already myself. Manjaro's official repo always has the latest versions of everything. It is super nice compared to repos of Debian + its derivatives for example. However it doesn't help with FPC because they release so seldom. Ancient FPC 3.0.4 is still the latest. This is almost unbearable. Issue #30306 was an important compatibility feature/fix. It got fixed some 3 and half years ago. When FPC 3.2 finally comes out, it may well be 4 years. Insanity! More and more people must build FPC from sources. It hogs resources also from FPC devels. They have an endless merge exercise. Bug fixes from past years must be dug up and merged to 3.2 branch. Still the release will be outdated already when it finally comes out, because trunk has collected so much new stuff during the years. Other FOSS projects have faced the same problem in past. They typically fixed it by adjusting their release policy. Release early, release often. A principle of "release when it is ready" is doomed. No substantial SW is "ready" ever. There will always be things to fix and improve. I hope there will be more forks of FPC project which concentrate on release schedule. Maybe one of them could replace FPC in distro repos. Maybe Lazarus can switch to use it. Don't know ... Juha -- _______________________________________________ lazarus mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
