For anyone wanting to additionally test the upcoming FPC 3.2.4 on Windows
How difficult would it be to release Lazarus with FPC [git main] as well?
(It would also be nice to be able to check the statistics on SourceForge to see which version is more popular)
Just to clarify => The above build is a snapshot. Not a release.
Releases are always build with the released FPC version. (in very very very rare cases with a patch to it).
Well, technically: With a release build of FPC => since its not the binary that the FPC team uploaded, but a new build of the same sources. Just how our scripts have always been, and easier to keep that way.
Why release?
I’d like to see more people start using Trunk.
Let’s say I’m developing a utility and want to use features that are only available in Trunk. I can release binaries. I can also provide instructions for building it yourself. But I don’t want to make the user build FPC from scratch first. Especially since users have varying levels of expertise. For example, someone who can install a pre-built FPC+Lazarus and participate in developing the utility, but isn’t ready to also build the development environment.
This is for people like that. People who just want to install the development environment by clicking Next->Next->Next.
Ignoring that it would never be a release, it wont work well in that way either. FPC trunk keeps changing. And its hard to predict if the snapshot build by us would then be based on a good or bad commit. But we would be stuck with it, for an entire release.
And yes, 3.2.2 has its own problems.
The FPC fixes branch on the other hand has been rather stable. Albeit it now need testing as it received a lot of merges.
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