[fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.2 release target

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 30 May 2016, Maciej Izak wrote:

> 2016-05-30 14:41 GMT+02:00 Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com>:
>
>> Let me first finish the packages stuff as that will lead to a breaking
>> change in the RTTI binary format (PPTypeInfo instead of PTypeInfo,
>> necessary due to Windows' PE format) and I don't want to add any new RTTI
>> stuff before this is dealt with.
>>
> I do not want to grumble, but... Release date for packages? It is really
> painful. Maybe you need some support? My work with smart pointers is almost
> done and after smart pointers release I can put effort into packages. The
> work of other developers outside FPC core team (also my work) is blocked
> for more than half a year... or even more.

This is not an argument.

I will repeat: FPC is and remains a hobby project for the core team.

Expecting some kind of timeline is simply deceiving yourself.

Michael.