[lazarus] 1.1 compiler recommended yet?

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:59:24 +0100
Florian Klaempfl <Florian.Klaempfl at gmx.de> wrote:

> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:24:20 +0100
> > Florian Klaempfl <Florian.Klaempfl at gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> >>
> >>>On 29 Dec 2002 13:41:44 -0600
> >>>Tony Maro <tony at maro.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Is it recommended to update to 1.1?  I'm still on 1.0.7...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>No. 1.1. still produces a lot of panics and parsing errors for uncommon
> >>>code. 
> >>
> >>Can you provide some examples :) ?
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, but I'm to lazy to report bugs for code I myself would not allow.
> > ;)
> > 
> > Of course there are also some bugs, for which I didn't find simple
> > examples. Like the 'redefinition' hints for forward class types. You can
> > find them in htmllite and grids.pas.
> > Most of the panics were gone, if you simply call the compiler again or
> > compile everything, or you just fix the bug in the code.
> 
> At least our test suite results for 1.1 are much better than for 1.0.x :)

1.1 is definitely a better compiler.
Comparing to c.* compilers: A panic at the right place is better than a
message at the wrong place. 


Marc, what is the status of the 1.1 rpm?


Mattias