On 24/04/2019 16:08, Fred van Stappen wrote: > I see that there is already a fpc 3.3.x!
Yes, that is FPC Trunk. > So, what will append, first (when ?) a official release of fpc 3.1.x, > then (when ?) a official release of fpc 3.2.x, then (when ?) a > official release of fpc 3.3.x, ....? versions numbers are define as follows <major>.<minor>.<maintenance> Look at the <minor> number in the version string. All uneven version numbers are development/unstable versions of FPC. so 2.7.x, 3.1.x, 3.3.x All even version numbers are or become release versions of FPC. As soon as a new stable version (branch) is created, also known as a "release candidate", then Trunk needs a version change too. So we had FPC 3.1.x which will eventually become 3.2.0 release. So a whole ago they branched the 3.2.0 release candidate, which meant Trunk had to change too, which in turn become the next uneven number... 3.3.x > And what are the "must-have" of fpc 3.0.x vs 3.1.x vs 3.2.x vs > 3.3.x? Only the even <minor> versions! 2.4.x 2.6.x 3.0.x 3.2.x ...and in the future (normally every 2 years).... 3.4.x FPC already announced the next "release candidate". That means they forked Trunk and gave it the next stable version number "3.2.0" and are now in the process on stabilising it and doing bug fixes only. Once they are happy, it becomes the next official stable release for at least 2 years. In summary: The important FPC releases now are 3.0.4 (our current stable released version) and 3.2.0 (our soon to be new stable release version). https://www.freepascal.org/faq.html#versions Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
