On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:54:49 +0100 Marco van de Voort <[email protected]> wrote:
>[...] > > Yes, but 2.6.2 contains a few incompatibilities as well and Frank is > > right that a 1.0.8 release is meant as a bug fix release, so it should > > not contain incompatibilities. > > That's a sliding slope. Strictly speaking, a new version of the compiler > that predefines just one extra symbol (e.g. due to a new architectural > issue) would then not be acceptable since an user could already use the > symbol in its own code. > > Things are not black and white. If there are incompatibilities, they are > mostly there for a reason. Yes, that's why 2.6.2 was used for 1.0.8. The incompatibilities are minor compared to the many bug fixes. I just meant, that the release must note it prominently. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
