FYI:

Currently I'm renaming nearly all {$IF(N)DEF Linux} to {$IF(N)DEF Unix} in the development branch.

This because the meaning of the Linux directive is going to change in 1.2; from now on, Linux will only signal real Linux specific behaviour, while the directive "Unix" should be used for more generic Unix like features (like forward slashes, Unix'like disc layout).

The development and fixbranch compiler will define:

for target defines
FreeBSD FreeBSD,BSD,Linux,Unix (but Linux will
disappear in 1.2)
Linux Linux,Unix

However since 1.0.2 doesn't support this, some arrangements in the makefiles will be made to make the conversion smooth.

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This is all part of a greater plan of course, namely the splitting up of the LINUX unit into a Unix and Linux unit, more or less along the same lines (everything which is a bit generic to Unix, while Linux specific stuff stays in Linux)

This keeps the Unix unit a little more "portable" across Unices, while at the same time it removes the break on adding new functions to Linux.

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Comments, problems as a result of the replacing, etc to

Around what date do you estimate the 1.2.0 version will be ready?

There are no dates yet, but nowhere soon.

There is still very active development and rearranging in the development branch, and after that, some stabilisation period is probably necessary.

OTOH, you can already test it by downloading the snapshots (they're labeled as version 1.1, that's just the development version number, it will change to 1.2 once it's released)

Jonas

Around what date do you estimate the 1.2.0 version will be ready?

Mark

you wrote

Around what date do you estimate the 1.2.0 version will be ready?

No idea, but it will take at least some months. We even don't what will be included in 1.2.0.

But the 1.0.x versions will be maintained and updated til 1.2.0 is released