On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: > In the interest of making the least amount of work for anybody, my > suggestion would be to proceed at the current rate towards 2.0.0, but to > make sure that this is still compatible with FPC 3.0.0. After that try to > slow down the Lazarus numerical progression a bit by using "hundredths" > more.
I think the backwards compatibility of LCL is the most important detail. A Long Term Support version of the IDE itself does not make much sense. The compatibility of LCL has been good. Or maybe it had problems which I don't know about. FPC 3.0 + codepage aware strings + our new UTF-8 system however breaks certain code that depends on system codepages, but it also improves things a lot. This kind of changes are necessary sometimes. I don't understand how a slower release cycle would improve it. Juha -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus