[Lazarus] Release Candidate 1 of Lazarus 1.6

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Juha Manninen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd

>> make sure that this is still compatible with FPC 3.0.0. After that try to
>> slow down the Lazarus numerical progression a bit by using "hundredths"
>> more.
> 
> I think the backwards compatibility of LCL is the most important
> detail. A Long Term Support version of the IDE itself does not make
> much sense.
> The compatibility of LCL has been good. Or maybe it had problems which
> I don't know about.
> FPC 3.0 + codepage aware strings + our new UTF-8 system however breaks
> certain code that depends on system codepages, but it also improves
> things a lot. This kind of changes are necessary sometimes. I don't
> understand how a slower release cycle would improve it.

In fairness, I didn't say a slower release cycle, I said more use of the 
"hundredths" digits so that once Lazarus is at (say) 2.0.0 it doesn't 
appear to move away from it so quickly.

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

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