[Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Florian Klaempfl
<florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> If you think it's so easy, be our guest to coordinate an fpc release :)
>
> 2.2.4 was heavily tested but then we recognized a security hole after
> everything was packed. Just as a hint: till all different versions of
> fpc for one rc are packed, it takes easily 2-4 weeks and lot of poking
> by the release coordinator :)

Wow, I didn't know it takes that long. I can only comment on my
experience with our software which gets released on two platforms.
What I described is how we do things - your mileage obviously varies.

>> * Release 0.9.26.
>> * Oh crap, we didn't test enough and 0.9.26 is broken.
>> * merge, fix and retest using the branch release 0.9.26 was based on.
>> * Release 0.9.26.1
>
> This is not really possible, the defines etc. in fpc are limited
> currently to x.y.z

Oh, I didn't know that. Then again, I wasn't talking about FPC, this
whole thread was about the Lazarus repository.


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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