Juha Manninen wrote:
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd
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.
In fairness, I didn't say a slower release cycle, I said more use of the
"hundredths" digits so that once Lazarus is at (say) 2.0.0 it doesn't
appear to move away from it so quickly.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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