[Lazarus] Should Lazarus and FPC release library updates separately from product updates?

[Alexander Klenin]

2011/8/12 Frank Church <vfclists at gmail.com>:
> Whenever updates are made it is difficult to tell whether they are due to
> updates or fixes in the libraries, ie FCL, LCL etc or the product ie the
> Lazarus IDE and the FreePascal language and compiler.
>
> Unless library updates don't depend on product updates shouldn't they be
> kept separate?
>
> I don't know if it is something already done that is not explained well
> enough or is not done at all?

This will probably be too much work, especially because of the version
mismatch problems.
There are enough of these in FPC/Lazarus pair already.

However, I sometimes wonder if it will make sense to duplicate
some libraries into Lazarus repository.
This way, those libraries can be developed fast without bothering
FPC developers, who are very busy.
>From time to time, FPC developers can merge library changes,
similar to method used now in "fixes" branch.
If they do not like some changes, they can simply not merge them,
and everyone will be happy ;-)

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Alexander S. Klenin