In our previous episode, Ben said: > Is there any roadmap / time frame / estimate / thumb suck date / <???> > for the next major FPC release - thus a release based on Trunk?
2.4.4 is already uploaded, and its release only waits for some server problems to be sorted out. 2.6.0 is after that. Dates are difficult, specially with major releases, but I'd guess somewhere late this year. (october-december) > There are a few features in Trunk for some time now (ie: huge > improvements to Interface usage and many more) that are not available in > the latest stable 2.4.2. That's always the case, and the meaning of "trunk". But trunk first has to reach stability, both for usage, as for release building to be released as release. > I would like to use some of those features in a production environment, > but don't like to use Trunk for production code. So I would like to try > and plan/estimate how long we need to delay the usage of those language > features in our code. Such things are not a black/white thing, but a continuous scale. Just applying a label "stable" to a formally "unstable" branch doesn't magically make it stable. Major releases do have a tendency to have some problems in new major features. (like Lazarus never using 2.4.0's new resource support till 2.4.2) So if you really have a big interest in these features, start using and testing with trunk as soon as possible, since if you find major bugs, fixes might still go into 2.6.0. But for that they have to be discovered, and fixed. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
