[Lazarus] "New" database components in Lazarus 1.0.x

Reinier Olislagers reinierolislagers at gmail.com
Thu Oct 10 13:10:24 CEST 2013


On 09/10/2013 14:18, Flávio Etrusco wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Juha Manninen <juha.manninen62 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Reinier Olislagers
>> <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> "Generally new features are not backported. Only bug fixes are.
>>> Please use trunk if you need a feature which is only in trunk."
>>
>> Yes, it is a general rule but I believe exceptions can be made.
>> Is it worth the effort before Lazarus 1.2 comes, I am not sure.
>> Anyway, I have nothing against it.
>>
>> Juha
>>
>> --
> 
> I would argue that only new features in existing components/code
> should be avoided in stable branches; there shouldn't be a rule
> against adding new components, per se. I think of it as analogous to
> new drivers in Linux, that are allowed basically at any time in the
> release process...
> 
> -Flávio

Thanks, guys.
I noticed somebody (Mattias?) committed the patch and added them to
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.2_fixes_branch
Thanks a lot!




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