On Friday 21 December 2012 18:16:06 Florian Klämpfl wrote: > Am 21.12.2012 09:23, schrieb Martin Schreiber: > > On Tuesday 18 December 2012 19:07:47 Florian Klämpfl wrote: > >> Am 17.12.2012 10:36, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Any FPC developer willing to comment on the status of some of these > >>> issues (that have been years overdue)? > >> > >> It narrows basically down to the fact that fpc lacks developers and > >> contributors, or do I miss something? > > > > Don't you think after more than a year of decision-making about Unicode > > it is necessary for a serious compiler to actually make and communicate a > > decision? > > See mail from Michael. > Thanks.
> > Don't you think for a serious compiler there should be communicated > > design goals > > The mission goal of FPC is: develop an open source pascal compiler > written in pascal in a community effort. > Thanks. > > and the missing pieces and necessary boring improvements should be done > > before adding sexy new things? > > Maybe people should indeed first work on the compiler instead of > developing another gui and ide. In 1999? There was no other useful gui and ide for Free Pascal IIRC. > I cannot tell you neither any other > developer what they have to develop. We could close down all write > accesses to fpc svn till the features you need are developed but I fear > you won't get them either this way. People would just fork fpc or fpc > would die. So what do you propose? > I propose to extend and render more precisely the mission goals of FPC and to concentrate the power on the defined goals. > > Or is FPC simply a playground for the FPC-developers? > > Then that should be > > communicated too and I probably was wrong to invest so much time into the > > development of MSEide+MSEgui. > > If nobody is interested in features you need, bad luck for you, you have > three possibilities: develop them yourself, pay somebody to develop them > or use another compiler. Thanks for the message. I must say, in MSEide+MSEgui project the things are handled a little bit different. For example I never planned to internationalize MSEide because it complicates things, is a boring task and I did not see a benefit. Now a Russian speaking user convinced me, that MSEide can be used in Russian schools only, if translated to Russian. I liked the idea to use our loved Free Pascal in schools, so I took the boring task and moved the string constants to tstringcontainer so it can be translated. Remember, FPC does not support Unicode resource strings up to now. ;-) Martin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel