[lazarus] FPC Compiler needed for Lazarus ...

[Marco van de Voort]

> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:22:24PM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> > > 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 ?

1.0.6 contains critical bugs that prevent Lazarus from compiling, and
workarounds would compromise the Lazarus design too much.

> Will Lazarus work for future (released) versions of FPC without the need
> for a 2nd (different version) compiler ?

No guarantees. However statistically it seems that the amounts of critical
problems is decreasing each iteration. 

This is partially also because FPC has built a regression testing suite
after 1.0.x, which is steadily expanding, and usually avoids regressions in
desired behaviour.