Hi everyone,

Two questions:

I hope this is the right forum to ask this. I am not really interested in testing the newest and shiniest version of Lazarus, but something stable that I can use over the next few years. I do not want to update Lazarus every few months. I am running on Debian (MXLinux) and I know that the Debian packages of Lazarus tend to be a bit (?) old. What version of Lazarus would you recommend with most of the bugs resolved (I.e. new enough to not be totally outdated, but also well used enough to have found and fixed most bugs)? I currently have Lazarus 2.2.4 using qt5 with fpc 3.2 installed.

I want to develop a new 3D Window manager for Linux. Any advice on the best packages and/or version of Lazarus to use for this? I was thinking of using the castle game engine.

Thank you in advance.

Cheers,
Chavoux Luyt
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git lab version pointing to master is not enough to you?

you can also get deb packages on sourceforge.
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Old version of lazarus is only useful for armel architecture.Like MX Linux there is also Core Linux to update your OS.You can add last version of core linux and keep your /home separating the /home from /You old Lazarus will be keeped with fpc deluxe but you will need to boot on old MX Linux to make you lazarus working. You can find old 500 Go hard disks in shops. They are cheap. With that you can create a 400 Go /home partititon.Lazarus now integrate a lot of lazarus components. You can keep Lazarus 2.2 compatibility with {$DEFINE DEFINITION} and {$IFDEF DEFINITION}. There are some in extends.inc file on Extended Packages.

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Le mercredi 26 f?vrier 2025 ? 12:22:05 UTC+1, Chavoux Luyt via lazarus a ?crit :

Hi everyone,
Two questions:
I hope this is the right forum to ask this. I am not really interested in testing the newest and shiniest version of Lazarus, but something stable that I can use over the next few years. I do not want to update Lazarus?every few months. I am running on Debian (MXLinux) and I know that the Debian packages of Lazarus tend to be a bit (?) old. What version of Lazarus would?you recommend with most of the?bugs resolved (I.e. new enough to not be totally outdated, but also well used enough to have found and fixed most bugs)? I currently have Lazarus 2.2.4 using?qt5 with fpc 3.2 installed. I want to develop a new 3D Window manager for Linux. Any advice on the best packages and/or version of Lazarus to use for this? I was thinking of using the castle game engine. Thank you in advance.
Cheers,Chavoux Luyt--

I'm glad you asked, because we created the releases for exactly that. The latest release with the most bugfixes is currently Lazarus 3.8 using fpc 3.2.2.

Of course you can use an older version, but keep in mind, that Linux distros have changed as well, so a newer Lazarus version is better adapted to these.

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Mattias