On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Kostas Michalopoulos <[email protected]> wrote: > TBH i'm not sure if this page does more good or bad for the project. For > one, i'm worried about the modifications the version there has and doesn't > seem to be mentioned somewhere that this is *really* not the official > version but a custom setup. > > But more importantly, it distributes unreleased, untested, unstable code > with known bugs and unfinished features without even mentioning at all (let > alone in a big bold way as it should) that they are as such and without > providing a link to the official download page. Worst case might be that > people will download that "Lazarus 3.0" and think Lazarus 3.0 sucks because > it has all those bugs (without knowing - or just ignoring because people > tend to ignore stuff - that the version there is unfinished). IMO the > download link at the site should provide only stable builds (they are old > for a reason: testing and stabilizing a complex project like Lazarus and FPC > takes time) and test versions should be accessible via a separate page > linked from the download page for those who want to experiment. Even with > that, there should be multiple warnings about how these are unstable > products with bugs.
+1 > There is already someone in the G+ group who has issues with the version he > downloaded from there. Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
