Over the last couple of years I've been tinkering with Lazarus on i386 (Windows and Linux) and SPARC (Linux), I'm mostly using 0.9.24 on FPC 2.2.0. I'm currently trying to get it running on ARM (Linux, little-endian).

What is the current preferred version for non-core users, in terms of being reasonably stable but with problems being of interest to the core developers?

Op donderdag 07-08-2008 om 13:12 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Mark Morgan Lloyd:

Here we're using fpc 2.2.3 (thus svn fixes_2_2 branch) and lazarus-svn (trunk).

That's reasonably stable. And if lazarus becomes unstable, you could just revert to an somewhat older version which you remember does work.

Joost.

The 0.9.24 is the most stable.
Then comes 0.9.25 with revision 15471.
The current 0.9.25 has currently some image problems, otherwise it is the best of all lazarus.

Mattias

The best of all IDE's, you mean ;-)

Michael.

Mattias, Joost: many thanks. I might be safest sticking with 0.9.24 + 2.2.0 for the moment since the Windows development machine is NT and I've previously seen problems.

I'll have another shot at building for ARM and raise any issues in a separate thread.

Later I'll try moving to something newer than 2.2.0 on all platforms and then 0.9.25 or later. One of the things I'm still trying to find time to look at is problems when a project is moved between x86 and SPARC which might be related to endianness.

Needs a book, or at least a concerted effort to describe the underlying logic of how packaging etc. works. I guess at this point I'd like to once again thank everybody who's responded to my "where do I find" questions with consistent patience.

OT: there's "dog latin" and "pidgin english" but is there an expression for mangled Dutch? Elsewhere somebody's coined the term "clog" for a discussion to which the original poster keeps commenting as he works his way through a Delphi problem, and New Scientist yesterday had a report on 'Hanny's Voorwerp': voorwerp-oriented programming, anybody? :-)

The book is being worked on, and should be available (in German) around october.

Michael.