Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-12-05 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 12/4/05, L505 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, then, I should more so compare FPC to something like python or perl rather than GCC. Because GCC was available years ago when FPC was not. Whereas perl an python are newer. I think *part* of the reason perl is popular is because of all

Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-12-05 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 5 dec 2005, at 11:56, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: There are way more Pascal projects then Python or Perl projects. The only thing being that the majority of this projects are created with Delphi and not Free Pascal. Things like Skype and Age of Wonders computer game were created with

Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-12-05 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 12/5/05, Jonas Maebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least the Mac OS X version of Skype seems to be a combination of C+ + and Objective-C, with no FPC-generated code in sight. It probably is. But the initial version, the Windows one is a Delphi app. The Linux and Mac OS versions are not ports

Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-12-03 Thread L505
I think like how torry.net, Delphi 3000, etc. work (but you obviously can create smaller websites than that) people should be building independent websites to promote freepascal. I would diagree. Up to now there a tons of sites concering FPC/Lazarus: freepascal.org, sourceforge,

Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-12-03 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 24 Nov 2005, at 18:28, L505 wrote: I don't think the GNU C compiler is popular because of one nice website. I think the reason GNU C compiler is successful is because of all the fan boys I'm quite sure it's mainly successful because it's the default (and often only) C compiler on

Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-12-03 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Thu, 24 Nov 2005, schreef L505: I'm talking about genuine, unique, freepascal user websites. Look how many PHP or Visual Basic sites there are, with I'm a happy PHP user written all over them. The extension myfile.php is marketing itself. If your websites had a myfile.pp or mysite.fp

Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-12-03 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 11/24/05, Peter Vreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think other people are encouraged to build FPC related websites if they can't help the freepascal site directly. Giving ideas doesn't help. We need people to do the work. We can't extended/debug fpc itself and rewrite a website at the

Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-12-03 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 03 Dec 2005, at 11:55, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: Ok, even if outside websites about free pascal help more then working on free pascal website directly, why don't you make it possible for people to see the website code and submit patches for it? The code is in svn, in

Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-12-03 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Sat, 3 Dec 2005, schreef Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho: On 11/24/05, Peter Vreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think other people are encouraged to build FPC related websites if they can't help the freepascal site directly. Giving ideas doesn't help. We need people to do the work.

Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-12-03 Thread L505
I don't think the GNU C compiler is popular because of one nice website. I think the reason GNU C compiler is successful is because of all the fan boys I'm quite sure it's mainly successful because it's the default (and often only) C compiler on Linux systems, as well as ported to pretty

Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-11-23 Thread L505
I read the very interesting article about the Systems fair: http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Systems_2005 One conclusion was that the web appearance needs to be improved: .. The websites are a serious problem. They are quite ugly and not very intuitive, and this is the case for

Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-11-23 Thread rstar
L505 wrote: I think like how torry.net, Delphi 3000, etc. work (but you obviously can create smaller websites than that) people should be building independent websites to promote freepascal. I would diagree. Up to now there a tons of sites concering FPC/Lazarus: freepascal.org,

Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-11-23 Thread Sebastian Günther
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: some discussion points: - one canonical site - consistent style/color on all sites - strip off old bones (TP tutorials, MOS) - merge FPC and Lazarus sites this is about the same we've discussed during Systems... :)