[fpc-pascal] CheckSynchronize

[vsnijders at quicknet.nl]

----- Original Message -----
From: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com>
Date: Friday, June 22, 2007 10:04 am
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] CheckSynchronize

> On 6/22/07, Vincent Snijders <vsnijders at quicknet.nl> wrote:
> > It is not that we can't use the release, but we (at least I) 
> rather risk a possible instability rather than have some some known 
> bugs and limitations. And that I want to invest time in it by 
> distributing patched versions of fpc. I think this is similar to 
> why there is debian for people who value stability and ubuntu for 
> people who want faster bug fixes or new features.
> 
> Are the bugs really that severe that people can't wait for 2.2.2?
> 

Sure they can wait. Lazarus users are really patient people, they are waiting for more 
than three years now for Lazarus 1.0.0.

> I think that maintaining such separate branch isn't a good idea. If
> the fixes haven't been commited 

They have been committed, but have not been merged to the fixes branch. 

> because they can have unprevisible
> side effects, releasing Lazarus with them may just as well
> fix a bug for some users, but add new bugs for lot's of other people,
> and then make this Lazarus release unusable for lot's of people.
> 

Any fix can have unprevisible side effects. Unless we test, we don't know the impact.

Vincent