Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-devel] Parallel processing in the compiler

Am 06.09.2010 11:29, schrieb Henry Vermaak: Yes, I'm talking about msysgit. It installs a whole msys tree, which I am not interested in, as I've explained above. Perhaps I'll try and build git inside my own msys. I have no idea why they just didn't integrate it - I'm sure there must be a

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-devel] Parallel processing in the compiler

Am 06.09.2010 13:46, schrieb Henry Vermaak: The problem, as I've stated previously, is that (imo) having two different mingw/msys installations on the path would be asking for trouble (different versions of gcc, libs, etc). That's why some people start with the git install, then unzip extra

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

Am 22.10.2010 14:11, schrieb Florian Klaempfl: Am 22.10.2010 13:38, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: God sakes man, this is ridiculous! Look at other successful open source projects - they don't work like that. If your patch works, that enough. Oh yes, bringing a patch into the linux kernel is

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [Lazarus] News on Delphi x64

On 01.11.2010 13:23, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 01 Nov 2010, at 11:21, Sven Barth wrote: I'm aware that FPC has Extended. But the point is that it's not supported on all platforms, cause not every platform can handle 80bit floating points. My question was more: Is Extended usable/enabled on Win64

Re: [fpc-other] News on Delphi x64

On 01.11.2010 16:52, Florian Klaempfl wrote: Sven Barth schrieb: Type sizes for 64: SizeOf(Integer)=4, SizeOf(NativeInt)=SizeOf(Pointer)=8, Oh f**k, please don't tell me FPC is now going to downgrade Integer to a 32-bit type. This will break such a LOT of programs!! That's how most

[fpc-other] FTP offline

Hello together! Can it be that the FTP server ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/ is offline? Regards, Sven ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other

Re: [fpc-other] FTP offline

Am 13.12.2010 11:14, schrieb Vincent Snijders: 2010/12/13 Sven Barthpascaldra...@googlemail.com: Hello together! Can it be that the FTP server ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/ is offline? Yes, there is a server replacement in progress. It is expected to back on-line soon. That server is also

[fpc-other] Object Pascal for Java environments

Hello together! I've just read something and thought that I'd need to share this news with you all. In Las Vegas is currently a developer conference held by REMObjects and someone else and the administrator of one of the German Delphi forums (Delphi-PRAXiS) is there as well. He's written

Re: [fpc-other] Get/Detect Variable Type

Am 09.02.2012 14:49, schrieb tazmande...@centrum.cz: Hi all, how can i simple get type of variable in freepascal? For example: procedure RawWrite(v:anyvariable) begin if GETTYPE(v)=string_type then begin;stringwork(v);end; if GETTYPE(v)=byte_type then begin;dobyte(v);end; if

Re: [fpc-other] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

On 27.09.2012 14:28, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Now these things simply can't be done with Web Forums. 99% of them have linear views (think Gmail layout here) or hierarchies (of whole messages), and not just a hierarchy of titles. So you scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and

Re: [fpc-other] Last message about changes (guaranteed!)

On 29.09.2012 14:36, Cephas Atheos wrote: Of course I'm assuming that those statistics are wrong (by at least a couple of orders of magnitude!), so it would help if we could find out the actual size, in terms of storage capacity and number of messages. If you've got a typical mail list archive,

Re: [fpc-other] Job offer for software developer

Am 06.11.2012 11:35, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: On 2012-11-06 09:30, Sven Barth wrote: Our current software is written in Delphi (with the exception of our Windows Mobile client which is written using FPC/Lazarus). The new core for our software (an application server) is planned to be written

[fpc-other] Christmas present for m68k community

Hello together! Today I read at Phoronix that the debian/m68k port for Amiga systems (not Coldfire) was revived and the first package building since years has started on Christmas Eve. It seems like we are not the only ones who want to see life put back into this architecture. Here is the

[fpc-other] mips-linux based handheld console

Hello together! Currently there is a project on Kickstarter about a mips-linux based and open gaming console (1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 16 GB SD card). The console itself is already mostly finished and they only look for money to have a bigger production. So if someone is interested in developing

[fpc-other] Source code of Adobe Photoshop 1 published

Hello together! I've just read the news that the source code of Adobe Photoshop 1 was published. Now this isn't a great news per se, but I've learned something very important for us: it's written in Pascal! Here's the link: http://computerhistory.org/atchm/adobe-photoshop-source-code/ It

Re: [fpc-other] Source code of Adobe Photoshop 1 published

On 14.02.2013 20:07, Florian Klämpfl wrote: Am 14.02.2013 20:06, schrieb Sven Barth: I wonder whether the first version of FPC 0.1 or 1.0 :)? 0.1 of course :) Regards, Sven ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http

Re: [fpc-other] Source code of Infocom interpreter (for Zork etc.)

On 02.03.2013 15:03, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: http://web.archive.org/web/19990128214618/http://www.work.de/nocash/inf.htm For Turbo Pascal 4.0 on a PC. There might be another one floating around somewhere, written by somebody inside Burroughs. Compiles without problems on FPC 2.7.1 if -Mtp

[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] [OT] Sven, don't defect to the dark side!

First and foremost: this is very offtopic, so I'm moving this over to fpc-other. If someone answers to my mail, then please ensure that you only answer to fpc-pascal. Thank you. On 12.03.2013 13:57, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Sad enough that you're almost no student anymore (presumably equals

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] [OT] Sven, don't defect to the dark side!

Am 13.03.2013 07:55 schrieb ListMember listmem...@letterboxes.org: Nevertheless I like ReactOS very much. I'm a huge fan of the NT kernel (just in case: I'm not talking about the Win32 API here) and one of my dreams would be a new NT subsystem written in FPC with an as much as possible Pascal

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] [OT] Sven, don't defect to the dark side!

Am 13.03.2013 07:53 schrieb Florian Klämpfl flor...@freepascal.org: Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com schrieb: I'm really looking forward to the time I'm no student anymore. First I'm finally able to earn a nice amount of money and second I'll have regulated worktimes and don't need

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] [OT] Sven, don't defect to the dark side!

Am 13.03.2013 08:13 schrieb Luca Manganelli luca_mangane...@comune.trento.it: On 12/3/2013, Sven wrote: I'm a huge fan of the NT kernel I am curious about this: why are you a huge fan of NT kernel? (in a programmer view) The NT kernel was originally designed to be a microkernel, traces

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] [OT] Sven, don't defect to the dark side!

On 13.03.2013 13:54, Paul Breneman wrote: Sven Barth wrote: ... ReactOS can be started in a headless mode (or at least it could be). It will then start the GUI only if a GUI application is encountered. Can you provide any more details or links? In theory it should be sufficient to add

Re: [fpc-other] Hitler Reacts to Delphi's Position On the TIOBE Index

On 15.03.2013 16:43, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: http://meemsy.com/v/7640 Man, was that funny. Absolutely brilliant video! I've just seen this video is well (on Delphi-PRAXiS) and wanted to post about it here, but it seems that you were faster *ggg* Note for those that understand German:

[fpc-other] JavaScript based Turbo Pascal 3 compiler

Hello together! I just found this on the web: http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/projects/turbo_pascal_compiler/ It represents a Turbo Pascal 3 compiler written in JavaScript plus an UCSD P-Code VM for which that compiler generates code. It seems that it is again that time of the year to think

[fpc-other] 30 years of Turbo Pascal

Hello together! On the German news site Heise (for those that can read German: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/30-Jahre-Turbo-Pascal-Integrierter-Ansatz-revolutionierte-die-Softwareentwicklung-2050920.html ) I've just read that Turbo Pascal was released today on the 20th November 30

Re: [fpc-other] 30 years of Turbo Pascal

On 20.11.2013 18:15, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Am 2013-11-20 15:33, schrieb Sven Barth: Turbo Pascal was released today on the 20th November 30 years ago. Is this correct for all datediff-functions? ;-) It won't be correct if you base years on the orbit period of Mars or some other

[fpc-other] Happy new year!

Hello together! I wish you all a happy new year! (00:51 CET) Regards, Sven ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other

Re: [fpc-other] Happy new year!

On 01.01.2014 16:28, Michalis Kamburelis wrote: And a happy new year to you! Many thanks to you and the whole FPC team for your excellent work. I'm just playing with the generics with constrains feature in FPC 2.7.1 --- thank you for implementing this, as well as many other new language

[fpc-other] Smart Mobile Studio compiler is now free

Hello together! I've just read this and considering that Michael is working on a Pascal to JS converter I thought that I should mention it here as well. The compiler used by Smart Mobile Studio to convert Pascal to JS code is now released for free (without RTL and Co. though):

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] fpc course

On 02.07.2014 03:53, kapibara wrote: Hi guys, I'm thinking of starting a FPC/Lazarus course in my local area. It would be interesting to know where you all think FPC (and Lazarus) is in 5-10 years? Personally I think ObjectPascal is a great and productive language, hence, I'd like to see it

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Access GPIO pins on RPi2 without root?

Am 10.10.2015 11:40 schrieb "Bo Berglund" : > > OK, > I have now subscribed to the fpc-other list. > Hopefully I can ask "stupid" fpc usage questuions there... If it would be a FPC specific usage question then it would be a bad idea to post it to fpc-other. However as

Re: [fpc-other] FPC Pestering Peacock (3.0.0) release

Am 26.11.2015 02:18 schrieb "Ralf Quint" : > > On 11/25/2015 1:52 PM, Joost van der Sluis wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> We are happy to announce the release of the Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.0 "Pestering Peacock". >> > Seriously? Are you now starting the same nonsense that

Re: [fpc-other] Differences in opinion

On 02.02.2016 13:56, Jonas Maebe wrote: > [moving to fpc-other] > > Martin Schreiber wrote on Tue, 02 Feb 2016: > >> There are not many occasions where I have fundamental other opinions than >> Jonas regarding FPC. Currently I can't remember a single instance. > > The usefulness of supporting

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] The end of Gmane

Am 29.07.2016 10:02 schrieb "Bo Berglund" : > > On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 01:38:16 +0530, Vasudev Ram > wrote: > > >Hi list, > > > >Sorry if this has been mentioned earlier here already, or if it is > >considered off-topic (and if so, will not do it again).

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

On 23.05.2017 18:00, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > Also, ever tried to do partial commits in SVN? (Not committing all the > changes in a single file.) (git add --patch) To be fair: at least on Windows that is very easy with the help of TortoiseSVN :) Regards, Sven

Re: [fpc-other] What makes a Compiler project (like FPC) special?

2017-05-25 21:29 GMT+02:00 Graeme Geldenhuys : > On 2017-05-25 19:47, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: > So what is Florian going on about regarding workflow and Git not being able > to cope in a "compiler" based project? He made it out as if FPC will not be > workable in a

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-24 14:12 GMT+02:00 Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) : > > Hi, > > On Wed, 24 May 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > > If the Free Pascal team is ever serious about migrating to Git, I'll > > happily help out with the migration process. > > Well, I think the resistance

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-25 15:20 GMT+02:00 Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) : >> Of course the biggest obstacle is the building and running of the >> testsuite. > > Well. Build breakages are daily occurence with obvious "this could have > never built" mistakes, or new packages get committed

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-25 15:34 GMT+02:00 Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl>: > In our previous episode, Sven Barth via fpc-other said: >> Of course the biggest obstacle is the building and running of the >> testsuite. > > I think running the testsuite is a waste of time and cy

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-devel] Object upgrades

Am 17.06.2019 um 20:01 schrieb wkitt...@windstream.net: Also I never had to configure my Thunderbird in any special way to have the messages fully on my system... because most default to using IMAP these days... when you say "fully on your system", do you mean that you can disable your

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-devel] Object upgrades

schrieb am Mo., 17. Juni 2019, 14:44: > On 6/17/19 1:52 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-other wrote: > > I use IMAP, so that could also be part of the explanation... > > > i had a feeling that you were using IMAP... most folks these days do use > it... i > never liked it beca

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-devel] Object upgrades

Tomas Hajny schrieb am Mo., 17. Juni 2019, 02:47: > On 2019-06-17 02:05, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: > > On 6/16/19 4:41 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-devel wrote: > >> Am 16.06.2019 um 17:43 schrieb wkitt...@windstream.net: > > > Switching to fpc-other, since this is cert

Re: [fpc-other] Delphi 10.4

Am 27.03.2020 um 11:39 schrieb Marco van de Voort: Some early info about new Delphi 10.4 features https://community.idera.com/developer-tools/b/blog/posts/get-ready-for-the-10-4-beta-with-update-subscription 1 Language Server Protocol for Delphi 2 Language Enhancements: Managed Records 3

Re: [fpc-other] Delphi 10.4

Am 11.04.2020 um 14:56 schrieb Marco van de Voort: Op 2020-04-11 om 14:45 schreef Sven Barth via fpc-other: 2: management operators for records, maybe also simple record inheritance to reuse e.g. a refcount record pattern Yay me, we got something incompatible again... 3: (also?) having

Re: [fpc-other] VSCode

Am 28.04.2020 um 02:14 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: On 26/04/2020 2:37 pm, Sven Barth via fpc-other wrote: It's more lightweight than eclipse. Well that's comparing Apples to Oranges isn't it? Yes originally Eclipse was designed as an IDE for many languages, but it has grown to be so much more

Re: [fpc-other] I need ppcjvm for ARM64 architecture

Am 27.04.2020 um 13:38 schrieb Mgr. Janusz Chmiel via fpc-other: Dear specialists, My long term dream is to develop simple Android IDE which will be able to compile Pascal app based on PPCJVM to The fully functional .apk package. The first what I would like to plea you is to give Me direct link

Re: [fpc-other] VSCode

Am 26.04.2020 um 14:03 schrieb Martin: Just curiosity: I recently see a lot of great efforts to make things more widely available (language server / debug adapter). Often with reference to use in VSCode. I wonder what the advantage or usecases are for using VSCode as an IDE? - free and

Re: [fpc-other] VSCode

Am 26.04.2020 um 14:28 schrieb Martin Frb: On 26/04/2020 14:21, Sven Barth via fpc-other wrote: Am 26.04.2020 um 14:03 schrieb Martin: Just curiosity: I recently see a lot of great efforts to make things more widely available (language server / debug adapter). Often with reference to use

Re: [fpc-other] who of us could try to improve javcl project

Best ask your questions related to Android (be it with JVM or not) on https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/board,43.0.html for native Android and https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/board,56.0.html for JVM. There are more users registered that can help than here on

Re: [fpc-other] ARM is the future of desktop

Am 02.07.2020 um 18:14 schrieb Santiago A.: Hello: Here is an interesting article by a ex-windows boss. He thinks that in a few years even desktops will be ARM and Intel will be residual. And obviously it will be a mayor problem to Microsoft, whose software is very tied to Intel platform.