Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-21 Thread 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

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-21 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Any FPC developer willing to comment on the status of some of these issues (that have been years overdue)? For some reason this thread ended up in my spam box. Hence the late reply. As for the question: I've planned to do some work on the

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 21/12/12 10:15, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: It would be good to keep those facts in mind before ranting. I was simply bringing some of those questions (which I had too) to light. Unicode has been under development for many years, and has come to a halt - with no final decisions being made.

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-21 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 21/12/12 10:15, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: It would be good to keep those facts in mind before ranting. I was simply bringing some of those questions (which I had too) to light. Unicode has been under development for many years, and has

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 21/12/12 12:26, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: We know what to do. What we lack, is time. Status currently: Thanks for the update. Most of what you mentioned was unknown to any person outside the FPC core team. So to us outsiders, it seems like progress has halted. Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-21 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Graeme Geldenhuys gra...@geldenhuys.co.uk hat am 21. Dezember 2012 um 13:49 geschrieben: On 21/12/12 12:26, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: We know what to do. What we lack, is time. Status currently: Thanks for the update. Most of what you mentioned was unknown to any person outside the

[fpc-devel] Re: Building android-i386 [Was: Re: Building the Android branch]

2012-12-21 Thread Sven Barth
Am 20.12.2012 17:11, schrieb Thomas Schatzl: Hi, On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 16:33 +0100, Sven Barth wrote: Am 20.12.2012 10:19, schrieb Thomas Schatzl: - if you are really interested about doing Android development, I recommend getting a developer board. The emulator is really slow. Even fast

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Building android-i386 [Was: Re: Building the Android branch]

2012-12-21 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: Also I replaced the linker with the BFD one from the beginning. Also I tried the 4.4.3 and the 4.6 binutils. The only difference (after adding -Cfsse3 -Cppentium3) is now that I'm doing this on Windows. I'll retry this at the weekend on Linux. What

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Building android-i386 [Was: Re: Building the Android branch]

2012-12-21 Thread Sven Barth
Am 21.12.2012 15:58, schrieb Marco van de Voort: In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: Also I replaced the linker with the BFD one from the beginning. Also I tried the 4.4.3 and the 4.6 binutils. The only difference (after adding -Cfsse3 -Cppentium3) is now that I'm doing this on Windows.

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Building android-i386 [Was: Re: Building the Android branch]

2012-12-21 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: this at the weekend on Linux. What puzzles me though is the File format not recognized when the linker tries to open the pp.o file... What does file say about that file? It will be hard to have file say anything as I'm - as I wrote - currently

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
It would be good to keep those facts in mind before ranting. Cutting out a whole lot of crap: as somebody very much on the periphery of the project, I'm disappointed to see sentiments of this tenor being aired in public. First, in traditional debate it's not considered necessary to be quite

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-21 Thread Florian Klämpfl
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

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-21 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 21.12.2012 12:58, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: On 21/12/12 10:15, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: It would be good to keep those facts in mind before ranting. I was simply bringing some of those questions (which I had too) to light. Unicode has been under development for many years, and has

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-21 Thread ListMember
On 2012-12-21 14:26, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: - Inoussa has made a native unicode string manager. A large effort. Is this code publicly available somewhere? ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-21 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, ListMember wrote: On 2012-12-21 14:26, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: - Inoussa has made a native unicode string manager. A large effort. Is this code publicly available somewhere? It's attached to a bugreport in Mantis somewhere. Michael.

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-21 Thread ListMember
On 2012-12-21 22:29, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, ListMember wrote: On 2012-12-21 14:26, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: - Inoussa has made a native unicode string manager. A large effort. Is this code publicly available somewhere? It's attached to a bugreport in Mantis

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-21 Thread Sven Barth
Am 21.12.2012 22:20 schrieb ListMember listmem...@letterboxes.org: On 2012-12-21 22:29, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, ListMember wrote: On 2012-12-21 14:26, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: - Inoussa has made a native unicode string manager. A large effort. Is this code

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-21 Thread ListMember
On 2012-12-22 00:27, Sven Barth wrote: Am 21.12.2012 22:20 schrieb ListMember listmem...@letterboxes.org mailto:listmem...@letterboxes.org: Can you (or someone else, of course) think of a better search string to locate it? Go to View Issues, click on the + before the search bix, click