[Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

[Andreas Schneider]

Am Montag 08 März 2010 01:58:22 schrieb Doug Chamberlin:
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> 
> A couple of further specific comments:
> 
> I see a bunch of bugs reported and developers posting that those are
> fixed. But unless I wade in and install SVN and figure out how to use it
> to update my local source and figure out how to compile FPC and Lazarus
> I cannot make use of those bug fixes. So I'm stuck with the choice of
> installing a rather old stable version and living with the bugs it has
> (that I know have been "fixed") or waiting until a new stable version is
> packaged up. I choose to wait (again, because I have no compelling
> reason not to). But that, in turn, keeps me away from the project so
> that I cannot learn more about it and cannot help out because I'm
> forever "on the outside looking in".
> 
> I have avoided CVS, and so far successfully avoided SVN, because I see
> them as rather old technology. In contrast, Git is an amazingly powerful
> and fresh look at the problem. I'd rather start out using Git. But when
> Git was proposed to the FPC/Laz projects it was rather soundly brushed
> aside. Another reason for me to stay on the sidelines.
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You don't have to build FPC. Just building Lazarus is enough. And not even 
that is required, thanks to daily snapshots: (with installers!)
http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/

Best Regards,
Andreas.