On 31.10.2016 14:58, [email protected] wrote: > On 31.10.2016 5:30, Zoë Peterson wrote: > >> We do need it in FPC proper though, not New Pascal > > I was going to ask you to clarify that; thanks. > >> Blaise, I'm fine settling up with you if Maciej takes over. Is there a >> foreseeable schedule for you finishing if he doesn't? > > I am ready to allocate a week or two from my schedule in the next month > for this, but:
Sorry for the long delay. I didn't want to answer this on my phone and it had taken a while till I remembered that I wanted to answer this while being in front of my desktop computer... mea culpa > 1) I would like a general commitment from the decision-makers to include > this. By that I mean A) they want the feature, B) they are ready, in > concept, to accept this patch (it may not implement the full support, > but it fully implements the core and hardest aspects), provided that we > work out the easy details (how to name stuff, where to put it, and > blocking bugs -- should we find any). Yes, to both A and B. > 2) I would like a commitment from at least one of the committers to work > closely with me during that period on resolving issues that prevent > merging. And by that I mean to be ready to react to my changes/questions > within a day/two/three (not a month) as we both go through the list item > by item. That might be the biggest hurdle as this is after all a voluntary project and how one organizes one's free time is a topic in itself... That said I'll be at home next week due to a vacation and my hope is that I'll be able to work on a couple of FPC topics that are still open. > Provided that we agree on the two above points, I believe we can have it > merged by the end of November. > > Not a hard requirement, but, additionally, it would be nice if your > staff (at Scooter Software), or someone on this mailing list, took over > the formal tests (writing, running, integration). Tests are very important indeed. Regards, Sven _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
