Road To 1.0

This document helps the Lazarus team to focus on a 1.0 release in the near future.

The work to be done is divided into 3 targets:

• things to be done before 0.9.12
• things to be done before the 1.0 release
• things to be done after the 1.0 release

1.0 or after 1.0

When new bugs are entered, we try to give them a target in which version the bug will be fixed. If a bug is set to post 1.0, that means the developers think this bug is not important enough to block a 1.0 release. In order to have a 1.0 sooner rather than later, developers will leave those bugs for later. Of course you can make sure these post 1.0 issues are fixed in the 1.0 release by providing patches for these issues.

Some criteria are:

• Only gtk1 and win32 widget sets are stable in 1.0. So bugs for other widget set (gtk2, carbon) are set to post 1.0.
• Until the 1.0 there will be a feature freeze. New features and components generally get a post 1.0 target. Bugs affecting stability have a higher priority than bugs fixing the implementation of a property.
• Some components are not stable enough and should be disabled for 1.0. If they are disabled, then fixing them before 1.0 will not be necessary.

0.9.12

• Drop dos unit. It can be replaced by sysutils.
• Move general translations support for IDE to LCL (and maybe eventually to the FCL). Vincent
• Webbugs to be fixed before the next release: target 0.9.12 bugs

1.0

• Webbugs to be fixed before the 1.0 release: target 1.0 bugs
• check and warn when open form for uninstalled packages with registration
• doc editor
• more LCL Documentation (see LCL Documentation Roadmap)
• fix debugging in windows and linux
• start protocol: IDE should remember if there is a problem opening a form or project and should not open it on a second start
• improve make install target
• add framework for easily using resourcestrings and translations in applications. Vincent

After 1.0

• Webbugs to be fixed after the 1.0 release: target post 1.0 bugs