On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 17.02.2015 19:20, silvioprog wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com >> <mailto:pascaldra...@googlemail.com>> wrote: >> >> On 17.02.2015 18:25, silvioprog wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Sven Barth >> <pascaldra...@googlemail.com <mailto:pascaldra...@googlemail.com> >> <mailto:pascaldragon@__googlemail.com >> <mailto:pascaldra...@googlemail.com>>> wrote: >> >> Am 17.02.2015 16:29 schrieb "Bee" <bee.ogra...@gmail.com >> <mailto:bee.ogra...@gmail.com> >> <mailto:bee.ogra...@gmail.com >> <mailto:bee.ogra...@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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