Am Montag 08 März 2010 01:58:22 schrieb Doug Chamberlin: [....] > > A couple of further specific comments: > > I see a bunch of bugs reported and developers posting that those are > fixed. But unless I wade in and install SVN and figure out how to use it > to update my local source and figure out how to compile FPC and Lazarus > I cannot make use of those bug fixes. So I'm stuck with the choice of > installing a rather old stable version and living with the bugs it has > (that I know have been "fixed") or waiting until a new stable version is > packaged up. I choose to wait (again, because I have no compelling > reason not to). But that, in turn, keeps me away from the project so > that I cannot learn more about it and cannot help out because I'm > forever "on the outside looking in". > > I have avoided CVS, and so far successfully avoided SVN, because I see > them as rather old technology. In contrast, Git is an amazingly powerful > and fresh look at the problem. I'd rather start out using Git. But when > Git was proposed to the FPC/Laz projects it was rather soundly brushed > aside. Another reason for me to stay on the sidelines. [...]
You don't have to build FPC. Just building Lazarus is enough. And not even that is required, thanks to daily snapshots: (with installers!) http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/ Best Regards, Andreas. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus