[fpc-devel] FPC 2.6.x branched, trunk becomes 2.7.1

[Alexander Klenin]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 19:39, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:
>> So, TAChart will have to carry numlib fork until 2.6.2 ?
>
> It's always possible. FPC releases are not based on "feature X will certainly be in it". We tried that (we were not going to do the next major release before the cpstrnew branch was finished), but it just doesn't work with a pure volunteer project.

I totally agree that time-based releases are the best,
but FPC has extremely long release cycle, and this makes everybody
desperate to "catch the train", since if you are late,
you are stuck at current station for a year ;-)

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Alexander S. Klenin