[fpc-devel]IOI 2002 coming up; timing of 1.0.6 release?

[Marco van de Voort]

> The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2002 will be held this year
> in Korea from August 18 to 25.  In May, there will be a review
> meeting of all competition material (including tasks and tools).
> 
> Last year (in Finland) we used FreePascal 1.0.4 and gcc 2.95.2.  There
> were some 250 participants in the competition, and a much larger number
> of competitors use the compilers in national and regional olympiads,
> that are organized to select delegations for IOI 2002.
> 
> If at all feasible, I would be in favor of having at least a new
> release in the bug-fix branch (i.e. 1.0.6) of FreePascal well before
> IOI2002.  There are quite a number of important fixes to benefit from.
> 
> As you can imagine, the IOI organization prefers to use an official
> release, rather than some arbitrary 1.0.5 snapshot (even though that
> may be better than 1.0.4).
> 
> Do the developers have any idea when a 1.0.6 release might be available?
> Is there any way in which this can be influenced?

Work is done on 1.0.6 currently. 

BTW, where are the bugreports for 1.0.4's IDE?