Michael Schnell wrote:
On 10/21/2015 11:28 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
If that's something you're actively working on it would sound like an
eminently sensible suggestion.
I had been working on that on and off (and discussing it here) for a
long time, but there had been no point in pushing it (once I were not in
need of using it myself any more), before fpc 3.x is an official release
so that a non-svn-user would be able to compile it (and hence would
break Lazarus in case it would be included).
Tracking the "best" version of FPC for any given Linux release can be
tricky. In retrospect it's unfortunate that the Lazarus 1.0 release
wasn't delayed until FPC 3.0, as a memorable combination against which
programs meant for distribution to people who didn't normally run FPC
etc. could be tested.
In practical terms, there have been a number of "must-have" features in
the IDE and LCL- frames as a particular example- which have mandated
moving onto a "bleeding-edge" FPC. My experience with Lazarus-1.4.0 and
FPC 3.0 rc1 has been generally good, particularly once I'd moved off
2014-era Raspbian.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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