[fpc-pascal] Some features for FPC 3.0?

[Sven Barth]

On 17.02.2015 18:25, silvioprog wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com
> <mailto:pascaldragon at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Am 17.02.2015 16:29 schrieb "Bee" <bee.ography at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bee.ography at gmail.com>>:
>      >
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > Just got an article about new language features from RO's Oxygene
>     language. I think some of them might be good to be (considered and)
>     implemented in FPC v.3.
>      >
>      > http://blogs.remobjects.com/blogs/mh/2015/01/28/p7049
>      >
>      > What do you think? :)
>      >
>
>     Some features are interesting and are on my own ToDo list (for
>     example tuples). There will however be no roadmap for these features
>     and more importantly they won't be part of 3.0, because that version
>     is currently prepared for release and thus has a feature freeze.
>
>     Regards,
>     Sven
>
> It would be nice if FPC adopt RC versions. So anyone could do tests just
> installing it via setup, instead of using GIT / SVN. And Lazarus RCs
> could be release using this RCs FPCs (e.g: Lazarus-1.4-RC1 has
> FPC-3.0.0-RC1).

We /are/ doing RCs just like we've done in the past. Before 3.0.0 will 
be released there will at least be a 3.0.0RC1 and maybe also a 3.0.0RC2. 
But it takes time to prepare these and thus RCs are only prepared when a 
new release is planned. Everything else would be - simply spoken - a 
waste of our time that is better spent improving the compiler, the RTL 
and whatever else we have.

Regards,
Sven