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Should Lazarus and FPC release library updates separately from product updates?

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Frank Church

Whenever updates are made it is difficult to tell whether they are due to updates or fixes in the libraries, ie FCL, LCL etc or the product ie the Lazarus IDE and the FreePascal language and compiler.

Unless library updates don't depend on product updates shouldn't they be kept separate?

I don't know if it is something already done that is not explained well enough or is not done at all?

Frank Church ======================= http://devblog.brahmancreations.com
Jonas Maebe
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Frank Church wrote 7 lines
Unless library updates don't depend on product updates shouldn't they be kept separate? I don't know if it is something already done that is not explained well enough or is not done at all?

It is not done at all for FPC. The reason is that it requires a lot of work (testing and packaging for umpteen platforms) and there is no one who has volunteered to do that work.

With the upcoming fppkg infrastructure (http://wiki.freepascal.org/ fppkg), this may however become easier to do in the future.

Jonas