Lazarus 1.2.4 versus 1.3

[pm]

What is the meaning of files posted on http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/snapshots/ with version numbers LATER than the ones in the sourceforge repo ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Linux%20amd64%20DEB/Lazarus%201.2.4/ ) ?

Lazarus 1.3 with FPC 2.6.2
versus
Lazarus 1.2.4 with FPC 2.6.4 ??  or even 2.7.1 for the fpc source ??

And if I may sneak in a part 2, is it reasonable to expect to compile binaries for 32- and 64-bit CentOS using Laz+FPC on Ubuntu 64-bit ?  Or should I install Laz+FPC directly on my desired target platforms?  (I was guessing that more people are using Ubuntu for development so I started there but I need to deploy on CentOS 5, 6 and 7.)

Advice would be very much appreciated.  I have been chasing my tail for a few days trying different combinations and it feels like time to ask for help.

Thank you very much.

[Leledumbo]

What is the meaning of files posted on http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/snapshots/ with version numbers LATER than the ones in the sourceforge repo ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Linux%20amd64%20DEB/Lazarus%201.2.4/ ) ?

Lazarus 1.3 with FPC 2.6.2
versus
Lazarus 1.2.4 with FPC 2.6.4 ??  or even 2.7.1 for the fpc source ??

http://www.freepascal.org/faq.var#versions
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Version_Numbering

And if I may sneak in a part 2, is it reasonable to expect to compile binaries for 32- and 64-bit CentOS using Laz+FPC on Ubuntu 64-bit ?  Or should I install Laz+FPC directly on my desired target platforms?  (I was guessing that more people are using Ubuntu for development so I started there but I need to deploy on CentOS 5, 6 and 7.)

Yes, provided you know the required steps and libraries.

[pm]

Thank you for the quick reply.  I have been considering the info on those links.

So the trick is to pay the most attention to the svn revision number ?

So lazarus-1.3.43080-20131005.lz.x86_64.rpm is OLDER than lazarus_1.2.4-0_amd64.deb or .rpm because (a) the latter goes with fpc-src-2.6.4-140420.x86_64.rpm and (b) 43080 is less than 140420.  Yes? 

I will try the 1.2.4 group of lazarus, fpc and fpc-src now.

[Leledumbo]

So the trick is to pay the most attention to the svn revision number ?

So lazarus-1.3.43080-20131005.lz.x86_64.rpm is OLDER than lazarus_1.2.4-0_amd64.deb or .rpm because (a) the latter goes with fpc-src-2.6.4-140420.x86_64.rpm and (b) 43080 is less than 140420.  Yes? 

Whether it's older, yes. 20131005 is surely older than 20140616 (Lazarus 1.2.4 release date). But neither (a) nor (b) is correct. FPC and Lazarus doesn't share the same revision number, they're developed independently despite the server is the same. Moreover, 140420 is not a revision number of FPC (the latest revision number is still around 28k), neither it's a release date (2.6.4 is released on 20140311). I have no idea what it is.