[lazarus] FPC Compiler needed for Lazarus ...

[James Mills]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:45:45PM +0200, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > 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. 

Although there may be no guarantee, I'd like to see it happen :)

cheers
James

> 
> 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.
> 
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