[Lazarus] FPC 2.4.2 and Lazarus

[Martin]

On 19/05/2010 14:47, Paul Ishenin wrote:
> 19.05.2010 21:45, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>> but with the many
>> regression bugs I found recently, that would worry me.
> All reported regressions bugs must be fixed before any release.

It is all normal that snapshot/SVN-trunk code does have regressions, and 
while it is always good to have some people using it, and help reporting 
them.
(even so sometimes the reports sound more like a complaint, which is 
hard to understand, since why would you complain that something broke, 
if you went there *after* having been told that it will break?)

But despite this Graeme  is right on his point: In the past couple of 
month several big changes where made, that from all we saw so far, have 
introduced a particulary high amount of those regressions.

As it stands currently, I am not 100% convinced, that not quite some of 
them may only be reported *after* the next release (Since not every user 
uses trunk).
Otherwise, we need to find a way to convince more people to test before 
we release. Some form of pre-release, but I think no one (who doesn't 
use trunk anyway) will test it unless it can easy and safely be tested 
without interfering with their stable installation.

Martin