[Lazarus] error compile Lazarus svn

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:39:08 +0000
> Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:

>> Plus others in fpc-devel. What we need is a "I've just committed 
>> something to svn trunk which breaks it for 2.6.x, normal service will be 
>> resumed shortly" button.
> 
> That would be wrong.
> fpc 2.6.1 was changed, which broke Lazarus. Lazarus was adapted, so
> it can not compile with older fpc 2.6.1.
> Compilation with fpc 2.6.0 was not affected.

With emphasis please on my "normal service will be resumed shortly", I'm 
not suggesting that the core developers gratuitously break things. I was 
thinking of cases where something is changed in one or other of the 
projects, and where somebody knows that this will cause problems for 
minutes or hours (or, in very rare cases, days). Some sort of "health 
warning" would be useful, so that people (or scripts working on their 
behalf) know that it's best to hold off any updates to their local copy 
until the situation is resolved.

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

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