Long time no new version of FPC?

[Wodzu]

Hi guys.

I am active Delphi developer and from time to time I code in Lazarus\FPC. What is starting to worrying me a bit is the lack of news from the compiler camp. Last stable version is 2.6.2 and it is almost a year old. Anyone knows what is happening there?

Regards.

PS. I could not find better section of the forum to ask this question so I've asked here.

[Martin_fr]

2.6.4RC was already published on the mail list. So 2.6.4 is coming soon

[Wodzu]

Thanks,

it is a shame tho that last news on FPC site is dated back to february 2013...

[marcov]

2.6.4 should have been out already, there is still some administrative things to do, and fixing of the distclean target of fpmake packages.

The plan is also to branch off the next major version in the 1st half of this year, and release in the 2nd.

[skalogryz]

it is a shame tho that last news on FPC site is dated back to february 2013...

that's an open source community. The latest news are in the trunk, mailing lists and forums

[Giu]

Come on guys, before OSS was so popular, we waited always minimum 1 year for new stable releases of software

[Leledumbo]

I am active Delphi developer and from time to time I code in Lazarus\FPC. What is starting to worrying me a bit is the lack of news from the compiler camp. Last stable version is 2.6.2 and it is almost a year old. Anyone knows what is happening there?

You must be new here, FPC ever had a longer release period. FPC doesn't really chase for date, a release will be released, when it's time to release (i.e. milestones reached).

[Wodzu]

I am active Delphi developer and from time to time I code in Lazarus\FPC. What is starting to worrying me a bit is the lack of news from the compiler camp. Last stable version is 2.6.2 and it is almost a year old. Anyone knows what is happening there?

You must be new here, FPC ever had a longer release period. FPC doesn't really chase for date, a release will be released, when it's time to release (i.e. milestones reached).

I am registered since 2009. I didn't say anything about chasing date but one year it is a long time (in my point of view). I just went to the FPC site and haven't seen any news so I got a bit worried that is all.

[JuhaManninen]

The next major FPC version, 2.8 (or 3.0) has the most painful birth-giving so far because of the unicode stuff. You can read the mailing list archives to see it yourself.

[Leledumbo]

I am registered since 2009. I didn't say anything about chasing date but one year it is a long time (in my point of view). I just went to the FPC site and haven't seen any news so I got a bit worried that is all.

Then join the mailing list (fpc-devel in particular) and watch trunk source. That's where all the news you want are available.

[Wodzu]

I am registered since 2009. I didn't say anything about chasing date but one year it is a long time (in my point of view). I just went to the FPC site and haven't seen any news so I got a bit worried that is all.

Then join the mailing list (fpc-devel in particular) and watch trunk source. That's where all the news you want are available.

Thanks I will.

[luca]

I'm developing a really big project in my Company.
I chose Lazarus because:
- I'm confortable with Pascal
- I like the opportunity to be ready to release my program on different platform (this is a really big added value).
- I like the community that help you in real time!

I'm able to develop same program on .Net but  I don't like to manage new .NET/Visual Studio release every year (more or less): this is a mess.

I used Code Typhon too (I like really much!) but I prefer to stay on a standard platform and to limit "extra" package to minimum.

When you need to develop a big project and you must guarantee stability it's not so important to update your development environment every year IF this environment cover all your needs.

This is my experience.

Regards.

[avra]

I just went to the FPC site and haven't seen any news so I got a bit worried that is all.

Maybe you didn't look at the right place?
http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_New_Features_Trunk
http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_Trunk
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Category:FPC_User_Changes_by_release
http://bugs.freepascal.org/changelog_page.php

[FPK]

A good indicator for activity is normally ohloh. Unfortunatly full FPC (http://www.ohloh.net/p/3311) is not updated currently on ohloh though the compiler only (http://www.ohloh.net/p/freepascal i.e. no rtl, no packages, utils etc.) is.

[FPK]

As an additional note: according to ohloh, fpc trunk had the second highest number of commits last month (March) since we are using svn (almost 9 years now).