[Lazarus] FPC 2.4.2 and Lazarus

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 02:14 +0300, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote:
> στις 20/5/2010 2:04 πμ, O/H Marco van de Voort έγραψε:
> 
> >> The Alpha, Beta, RCx, Release, Maintenance cycle is a must if you care
> >> about your users. The people who use your product. Don't make them chase
> >> a moving target. If you need to break something do so. In another major
> >> or minor release. Not in maintenance releases.
> 
> > Do you care about users? Do you volunteer for release engineering? We always
> > have a few spots open?
> 
> ... < me picking up the gauntlet > ...
> 
> I'm putting my money where my mouth is. I've done it before, i'll find 
> time to do it again for FPC.
> 
> Shoot ...

Hey, that's interesting. ;)

Most work is building the releases, but for that you almost always need
some knowledge about the build process. So I think that's hard for a
relatively outsider.
Other hard task is getting the maintainers to actually perform the
builds. But that's also hard for some new people. 

But maybe it would be very useful if you help with the basic testing.
When a release is build (relatively simple) you always have to test it
on an 'empty' system. You could help with that.

And, offcourse, you could try to build a release right now, using the
fpc-2.4.1 branch. For as many as possible releases. Marco has posted url
which explain how to do it. And report all problems you encounter. So
that the chances that 'we' encounter them when we are building the
official releases, don't have any problems.

That would be a big helper.

Joost.