On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Juha Manninen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Reinier Olislagers > <[email protected]> wrote: >> "Generally new features are not backported. Only bug fixes are. >> Please use trunk if you need a feature which is only in trunk." > > Yes, it is a general rule but I believe exceptions can be made. > Is it worth the effort before Lazarus 1.2 comes, I am not sure. > Anyway, I have nothing against it. > > Juha > > --
I would argue that only new features in existing components/code should be avoided in stable branches; there shouldn't be a rule against adding new components, per se. I think of it as analogous to new drivers in Linux, that are allowed basically at any time in the release process... -Flávio -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
