Tom Lisjac schrieb: > In contrast, the lazarus-ccr has 56 packages at last count and > Sourceforge shows 124 Lazarus and 432 Pascal projects. These small > numbers provide an alarming perspective on the total Lazarus/FPC > mindshare as Sourceforge also hosts 20,313 projects for Java, 14,645 > for php, 13,987 for C#/C++, 5,208 for Python and even 2,030 just for > the Eclipse ide.
This is a very americanish view :) If I'd ever looked for job opportunities, I'd never started to waste my time developing FPC (or any other OSS) :) > > Sure > enough, sometime during the Nov/Dec 2008 timeframe I got a compile > error with the new version. svn trunk is supposed to change, the changes for release version are always documented like here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.4.0 > I don't remember the details but found a > small posting explaining that this was due to a permanent change in > the scoping of inherited class variables "in this and future compiler > versions". So this proves the point that a version number 1.0 wouldn't change anything :) It was FPC which broke things apparently being at version 2.2.x. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
