[fpc-pascal] Some features for FPC 3.0?

Lukasz Sokol el.es.cr at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 10:40:46 CET 2015


On 18/02/15 18:18, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> Am 18.02.2015 um 14:03 schrieb Lukasz Sokol:
[...]
> Unlikely, we even cannot keep pace with the bug reports.
> 
I understand. 

[...]
> The linux approach is to dump a source blob onto the user.

And we FPC /users/ are 'suggested' to download&compile from SVN (even if it's just -fixes)
if whatever our upstream packager provides is insufficient for whatever reason...

> I would happily change to this model, unfortunatly we have no
> distributors like linux who do the boring work for us and package fpc
> for ~25 platforms.

OK, so I can see from here, what Marco said, about pseudo releases anyone can do,
holds value to the above. That I can understand too. Only hope whoever
volunteers to it, will be able to communicate / convey to upstream and not carried
away with their own little world...

Lukasz




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