[Lazarus] Dear developers, we need your help before releasing 0.9.26

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Paul Ishenin wrote:
> Hello, General mailing list.
> 
> Lazarus 0.9.26 is coming. We have made all the main changes we wanted to
> make. We spent the last couple of days on bug fixing. We have fixed many
> issues, but we are not sure we have fixed all regressions. It would be 
> sad to release a version, that you cannot use.
> 
> Thus we kindly ask you to test our latest snapshots at
> http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/ or (better) the svn version.
> Please, check your work projects, run tests, play with the IDE, do crazy
> things. And if you find a regression, let us know through the bug
> tracker at http://bugs.freepascal.org/ .
> 
> Lazarus 0.9.26 will not be released with regressions (new errors, things
> that worked in 0.9.24), *if* we know about them. If there are no more
> regressions, we will release in one or two weeks. After the release it
> will be too late to bash us for regressions. So grab this opportunity.
> 
> The Lazarus team.
> 
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lazarus-0.9.25-20080828 compiles and runs OK on NT4 SP6a and Linux 
(Debian "Sarge"). Compiler in both cases was FPC 2.2.2 on i386 using 
"make clean bigide".

Compiles for Linux (Debian "Etch") on SPARC using FPC 2.2.3 using either 
"make clean all" or ...bigide". However in this case the IDE runs but 
raises an exception while loading a project and/or closing an existing 
form. I need to check whether this fails with 2.2.0 of the compiler and 
with 2.2.3 with optimisation disabled since it might be a symptom of a 
known issue.

I'm trying to find time to test it running natively on ARM 
(little-endian) under Linux but am having a lot of difficulty fitting 
jobs into the available time.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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