Just like to say, that I noticed the other day that Freepascal 2.0.4 has made it to the Ubuntu Feisty Universe repositories. Ubuntu Feisty is expected to be out in April, but has never had Freepascal in it's repositories before.

I think this is great news for Freepascal...

It seems all those emails paid off then. :-) I've sent loads of emails requesting they consider including FPC and Lazarus as development tools. Why must C++ and Mono developers be so lucky and not us!

Graeme.

Yes, think so too!

FINALLY

looks like they've built and uploaded the fpc source that was sitting in edgy too

only i386 and amd64 though by the looks of things not powerpc

i wonder what they will do about updating it though, getting a non-autobuilt binary uploaded on ubuntu is like getting blood out of a stone so there will be problems if they miss a release of freepascal.

PPC is getting dropped in Fiesty, they will no longer officialy support PPC.

Great news BTW, is Lazarus getting in too? If not, it should :) (but first fix the "cannot add packages if lazarus is in non-writable dir" bug)

Ales

PPC is getting dropped in Fiesty, they will no longer officialy support PPC.

well they are making it no longer an official architecture but they aren't dropping it completely so pressure still needs to be kept up for them to build it on powerpc ;)