[fpc-pascal] when will Free Pascal have a stable release of 2.7.2?

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Wed Dec 11 10:23:51 CET 2013


Am 11.12.2013 10:05, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
> Bart wrote:
>> 2.7 branch will never be a stable release.
>> Eventually we'll get a 2.8 release.
>
> I think that needs to be made to sound more deliberate, for Dennis's 
> benefit. Please could any of the core team jump on me if some detail's 
> wrong, but:
You are nearly correct excep:
> There are some things in trunk which will go into 2.8, others will 
> remain in trunk when it becomes 2.9, others will be removed or left 
> optional for experimentation.
2.7.1 will become 2.8 sooner or later (*) and what's in trunk at that 
time will also be in 2.8.0 (and normally we don't deliberately remove 
things... ^^ ).

* To be more precise: 2.8 will be branched from 2.7.1 and 2.7.1 will 
then become 2.9.1.

Regards,
Sven



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