[fpc-devel] Considerations about observer [was: Free Pascal 2.6.2 rc1]

[Jonas Maebe]

On 28 Nov 2012, at 09:23, Vincent Snijders wrote:

> 2012/11/28 <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be>
>> It IS a big change. There is production code out there that uses  
>> this,
>> and this is an incompatible change.
>
> Then Luiz is right on time with his proposal, with the frist release
> candidate of the first release that contains this feature.

Personally, I think a release candidate is too late. A release  
candidate freezes all interfaces (even a beta release does so already,  
normally). Generally the only fixes still performed afterwards are for  
blocking crashers/failures, major security holes or build issues. I do  
believe that maybe this functionality was put in a release too soon  
after being committed to trunk, given that it changes the interface of  
the base units and hence the changes are more or less cemented once  
they are released. But that's a separate issue, which at best can be  
taken into account in the future.


Jonas
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