[fpc-pascal] Some features for FPC 3.0?

[silvioprog]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> On 17.02.2015 19:20, silvioprog wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com
>> <mailto:pascaldragon at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     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>
>>         <mailto: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>
>>              <mailto: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
>>
>>         <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
>>
>>
>> The problem is that FPC take a lot of time to release new versions. If
>> there was a version (RCs) every six months it would help a lot.
>>
>> Today I'm 32 years old, and probably I'll see the FPC 3.0 be released
>> when I'm 33 years old. FPC 4.0 -> 40 years old. FPC 5.0 -> I will
>> be already retired. =D
>>
>
> You shouldn't bother with version numbers too much. The next version could
> have as easily been 2.8 and the one after it 2.10. It's the features that
> count... And our normal rythm is a major release around every two years
> (currently a bit longer with 3.0, but nobody's perfect...)
>
>  Just suggestions. I follow other programmer tools, and they don't take
>> much time to release new versions, and some of them have fewer
>> programmers that FPC community. =/
>>
>
> Regards,
> Sven
>

Yes, I know. I don't bother with numbers, I bother with the time between
releases, that is very long.

The 'revival' of snapshot would be nice to solve the new releases needs.

-- 
Silvio Clécio
My public projects - github.com/silvioprog
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