[Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

[Vincent Snijders]

Florian Klaempfl schreef:
> Vincent Snijders schrieb:
>> Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
>>> On 7 March 2010 20:13, Vincent Snijders <vsnijders at vodafonevast.nl>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Do you want to be the maintainer of the "stable" version?
>>>
>>> I wouldn't know how using SVN - we use Git remember. Our method of
>>> getting a stable version would also probably not be appropriate for
>>> others. On a serious note, below is what we do, and I honestly can't
>>> see how this would be done in SVN.
>>>
>> As Florian said, most if not all can be done with SVN too. But besides
>> that ...
> 
> It's not a matter of tools but a matter of identifing the good and
> mergable patches/changesets/revisions.

Definitely. Hence my question for Graeme private stable branch change sets.

> 
> But in my eyes, one thing lazarus/lcl really lacks is a good automated
> testing system. I know this is not easy for a gui project but I still
> think a lot can be done e.g. by replaying recorded events.

I agree, maybe that is what I should be focusing on.

Vincent