[lazarus] FPC Compiler needed for Lazarus ...

[James Mills]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:22:24PM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 20:06:19 +1000
> James Mills <prologic at daisy.ods.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:12:07AM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 18:52:27 +1000
> > > James Mills <prologic at daisy.ods.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > What FPC Compiler is needed in order to use Lazarus ?
> > > 
> > > - At least 1.0.7 from 21. sept 2002.
> > > - The rpms need their rpm counterparts.
> > > - We are waiting for the announcement of the 1.0.8. The 1.0.8 is a bug
> > > fix release and will become the recommended compiler for lazarus.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Also, will this ever change so that you can just use the compiler you
> > > > already have installed. It seems such a bother to have to install
> > > > another compiler specific for Lazarus... (I'm using Debian, and prefer
> > > > to use Debian distributions, with exceptions).
> > > 
> > > I got the same problem. I plan to setup an lazarus and fpc apt-get
> > > source for deb and rpm. But this needs time...
> > 
> > Okay, this will be good.
> > Question: Will Lazarus every be able to use a stable fpc compiler or
> > always have to use a different version ?
> 
> The 1.0.x is the stable version since 3 years. It became more and more
> stable. Probably you mean the 'released' version. This is the case for the
> coming 1.0.8. The tgz and rpms are already there. I hope the debs will
> follow soon.
> 
> As always: if we found a critical bug, then the 1.0.8 will become 'unstable'
> for lazarus and we have to switch to a stable version.

See the thing I don't get is I have 1.0.6 (a released version, yes sorry
I meant released vs. stable), why won't Lazarus work with FPC 1.0.6 ?
Will Lazarus work for future (released) versions of FPC without the need
for a 2nd (different version) compiler ?

cheers
James

> 
> 
> Mattias
> 
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