AW: [fpc-devel] Bug 0007281 / MemLeak with interfaces

[Florian Klaempfl]

Helmut Hartl schrieb:
>> It is not usefull to do. There won't be a new release anymore from the
>> fixes branch.

What Peter wanted to say is: there won't be any 2.0.x releases but we 
want the next release to be 2.2.0 instead.

> 
> Your statement concludes that 2.04 is not usable for production
> environment.

Well, depends on what you want to do ;) The 2.0.x series has certain 
problems with memory handling depending on your application. Depending 
on the version either variants, widestrings, vararrays or interfaces leak.

>> Download Daily Update of Release Tree (version 2.0.x)
>> These snapshots contain the latest bug fixes, without any major new
>> feature. This should be more stable than the development snapshots (and
>> even the last official release), but there is still no guarantee that
> these >snapshots are bugfree.
> 
> We have 1446 registered users in the zeosforum and many of them are
> using/ starting to use freepascal apart from delphi & kylix.
> 
> Maybe you can give me a recommendation what to say to them?

I merged the patch but help us to test 2.1.1 as much as possible based 
on the revisions known to be good 
(http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Tested_Unstable_Revisions) so 
we can get 2.2.0 out asap (head is currently broken due to heavy rewrites).

The perfect solution for your users would be if you run daily regression 
tests with trunk and tell users which revisions work good with Zeos 
(currently 5191 is a good bet) and tell us if you get worse test results.