Jonas,
Thanks for info.
Personally, I'm able to use fixes_3_0 branch, the problem is that solution is not easy to support even for small developers group and some build/tests servers environment (mixed with D7 and dozens third-party libs).
So we stay on Lazarus 1.4 packaged with FPC 2.6.4 actually.
Amusing situation: both main compilers used in production are not more supported :)
It might be a good idea to release 1.4 package with trunc_3_0 but I'm afraid that updates will be frequent.
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Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 23:17:41 +0200
From: Jonas Maebe
To: FPC-Pascal users discussions
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC roadmap?
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On 31/05/15 21:40, Serguei TARASSOV wrote:
> >Thank for answers.
> >Are some dates planned for 3.0 release ?
No, not yet.
> >Actually, we have some risks : 2.6 is frozen and not supported but 3.0
> >is not released yet.
> >I took a little about some non-blocking issues at forum and tracker. The
> >advise was "use 3.0 from trunk".
> >Then I asked "Do you use 3.0 in production?" and the answer was "No" in
> >general.
I would recommend to use 3.0 from fixes_3_0 (or fixes_3_0_ios if you
need AArch64 support). I don't think much will still change to that
branch before the release.
> >In other hand, do any statistics about community exist?
> >I mean, estimated number of users, contributors, their activity...
> >I understand that projects like PHP are more diffused and give more data
> >about their activity but FPC/Lazarus has sufficient mature codebase and
> >history for this kind of information.
For contributors, commits etc based on the svn activity, you can have a
:
* the entire FPC source tree:https://www.openhub.net/p/freepascalall
* only the FPC compiler:https://www.openhub.net/p/freepascal
* lazarus:https://www.openhub.net/p/lazarus
I'm not aware of any statistics about people using FPC and/or Lazarus.
Jonas