I am a mac, windows, and linux developer with a lot of pascal experience, and the fact that there hasn't been a Free Pascal release in over 5 years, gets me thinking this project is in fact, deadlocked.
Can someone please explain what's up? Who is the project leader and are they on this list? Claude has read the piles of messages for me that I didn't feel like reading, but it seems clear to me from traffic on -devel that FreePascal has been in a quiet period for about four years, and that this, a lack of a release master, rather than any massive disagreements, has lead to the current rather sad state of things. I can't brew install fpc on mac, I can't get a binary fpc in ubuntu or debian anymore, the lazarus builds on mac fail because the released binaries of FPC are wildly incompatible with recent Mac Os 26.3, and XCode 26.3 tooling levels. I can build an alpha of FPC trunk on Mac OS, but it seems to me that nothing is happening much. If there's a push to get a release out SOON, let me know what I can do to help. Warren
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