Re: [fpc-other] Other IDEs

2008-12-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: Turbo Pascal 5? I think you don't know what Lazarus is. Every once in a while someone takes a look at the Free Pascal IDE and thinks it is Lazarus. I agree. I think people get confused between Lazarus IDE (GUI based and

Re: [fpc-other] Pascal librarys

2009-05-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:49 PM, ik ido...@gmail.com wrote: I think that if Pascal will have a lot of libraries in one area, that will make it easier then anything else existed, it might gain more usage and popularity. I thought FCL is exactly that. It contains lots of libraries and header

Re: [fpc-other] Pascal librarys

2009-05-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 1:10 PM, ik wrote: The difference of what we talk about is, that you present a lot of tools that using them I can make a framework. What I'm talking about is an existed framework to make it more usable, and make things easier. OK, now I see what you mean... lets

[fpc-other] FPCUnit, DUnit2 and JUnit licenses question

2009-07-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Michael Van Canneyt told me that we cannot include DUnit2 into the FPC source code tree, replacing FPCUnit (if we wanted to do that). The reason being that DUnit2 is developed under the MPL license which is incompatible with the GPL or LGPL license used by FPC. Well here is a question.

Re: [fpc-other] FPCUnit, DUnit2 and JUnit licenses question

2009-07-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: In all these projects it is clearly stated in the headers that they derived from JUnit. So what licenses is JUnit distributed with? From their website, it is the Common Public License. http://junit.sourceforge.net/cpl-v10.html And here is IBM's FAQ on the CPL

Re: [fpc-other] FPCUnit, DUnit2 and JUnit licenses question

2009-07-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Jonas Maebe wrote: Or maybe CPL is incompatible with (L)GPL and none of the 3 products may actually be bundled with FPC? The CPL is not compatible with the (L)GPL: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#CommonPublicLicense10 Correct, the IBM FAQ on CPL also states that the CPL

Re: [fpc-other] FPCUnit, DUnit2 and JUnit licenses question

2009-07-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: If FPCUnit is deemed derivative work, that would mean it must still use the CPL license, not so? Did I mentioned I HATE software licenses. :-) Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net

[fpc-other] fpGUI Toolkit v0.7-rc2 for FPC 2.4

2010-04-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
fpGUI v0.7-rc2 is available --- An archived source download can be found at the following URL, or the source code could be pulled directly from the source code repository. http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/files/ For more details, please visit the fpGUI home

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Apple forbids fpc applications on iPhone

2010-04-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 9 April 2010 18:07, Jonas Maebe jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be wrote: Hence, it would be useful if enough people send in their FPC-related comments via http://developer.apple.com/contact/, so the reworded version could maybe take into account our situation as well. Even though I don't program

[fpc-other] Wanted: permanent or contract developers for a new project

2010-04-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, The company I work for is called Master Maths. We are a franchise business and based in South Africa. We primarily produce computer based training for Maths and Science, and have been in business since 1976. Our Head Office has a staff complement of just over 30 people, and we are located in

Re: [fpc-other] Re: Pascal dialect

2010-06-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4 June 2010 17:03, Jonas Maebe jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be wrote: is a hit, it's a good way to encourage customers to upgrade. In our case it's primarily a good way to get complaints :) The big difference you are overlooking is that in a open-source environment you get to see what is happening

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal dialect -- was: Re: fpc-pascal Digest, Vol 72, Issue 12

2010-06-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4 June 2010 18:57, Jonas Maebe wrote: The main goal is implementing stuff we care about. If Delphi already implemented something similar, then unless there is an extremely good reason for doing things differently, it is stupid to implement it in a different way simply because you

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal dialect -- was: Re: fpc-pascal Digest, Vol 72, Issue 12

2010-06-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4 June 2010 19:04, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho So the original suggestion doesn't make sense. If you don't like {$mode Delphi}, don't use it, use another mode, or create your own. That only affects language features doesn't it? What about classes in the RTL, eg: the workings of TWriter,

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal dialect -- was: Re: fpc-pascal Digest, Vol 72, Issue 12

2010-06-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4 June 2010 19:51, Jonas Maebe wrote: As I said in the mail you replied to (first paragraph I wrote): FPC and Delphi are part of the same ecosystem. If you keep looking at it as if it is about us versus them, you will probably remain unhappy forever with how FPC evolves, because it will

Re: [fpc-other] Pascal dialect -- was: Re: fpc-pascal Digest, Vol 72, Issue 12

2010-06-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4 June 2010 21:09, Jonas Maebe wrote: supporting the same language and run time environment has advantages both for the FPC developers (by lack of an official standard to aim for, a de fact standard is a nice alternative guideline) Why didn't you just say that from the start! ;-) I

[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal dialect -- was: Re: fpc-pascal Digest, Vol 72, Issue 12

2010-06-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4 June 2010 16:13, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: So actually, currently it's you being dangerous, and we are protecting your job safety. Just because we like our hobby. I don't think dangerous is the correct word to use here. My thoughts on open-source software (and this I have mentioned to a

Re: [fpc-other] Pascal dialect -- was: Re: fpc-pascal Digest, Vol 72, Issue 12

2010-06-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 5 June 2010 08:02, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: Having said that, think that Object Pascal as we know it should also have a standard. I'm thinking the same thing, and am busy reading the beginnings of such a standard - which was unfortunately never completed or submitted. Maybe the

[fpc-other] [ANN] Beyond Compare 3.2 public beta is available

2010-06-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I just noticed that the Beyond Compare 3.2 public beta is available. BC is probably the best file/folder comparison tool out there. The v3.x version is available for Windows and Linux. It can compare data files, Linux packages (.rpm, deb, tar.gz, tar.bz), images, source code, binary .dfm

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] DocView and FPC documentation release

2010-08-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 26 August 2010 18:47, Tomas Hajny wrote: Any idea why is your Win32 binary 100 kB (12%) larger than the one I compiled two days ago from your fpGui7.0 sources available in SourceForge? I assume you haven't made any changes in the sources in between, have you? There has been 137 commits

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] DocView and FPC documentation release

2010-08-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-08-27 10:30, Tomas Hajny het geskryf: Sure, will do (at latest during the weekend). I'll also check whether the Thanks. Toolkit works any better (and also recheck whether NewView can cope with the VP/2 version correctly). I've never used NewView, but I believe it also manages

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] DocView and FPC documentation release

2010-08-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 27 August 2010 10:30, Tomas Hajny wrote: Sure, will do (at latest during the weekend). I'll also check whether the standard version of CPREF distributed with the latest OS/2 Developer Toolkit works any better (and also recheck whether NewView can cope with the VP/2 version correctly). I'll

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

2010-09-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 6 September 2010 10:27, Henry Vermaak wrote: The install is crazy, it basically installs a whole mingw/msys system (when I last checked).  I've already got an mingw/msys install and having two is suicide.  I've heard that people use the git install as a base and then install other

[fpc-other] Re: inf files and textmode IDE (fwd)

2010-09-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 6 September 2010 10:52, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: When the recent discussion about git moved to fpc-other, that reminded me that the last to-fpc-other discussion had loose ends :-) Oh boy, this sounds serious. Doesn't not replying, also answer a question. ;-) Just

[fpc-other] Re: inf files and textmode IDE (fwd)

2010-09-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
In case those previous attachments don't go through (which it seems they didn't), here are some external links to those images. How I setup INF files with textmode IDE: http://opensoft.homeip.net/~graemeg/fp_ide_inf_setup.png TStringList overview topic as shown in textmode IDE:

Re: [fpc-other] Re: inf files and textmode IDE (fwd)

2010-09-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 6 September 2010 17:58, Tomas Hajny wrote: Neither Lazarus IDE nor MSEide are available under OS/2 and I don't expect that to change any time soon. So if I use an IDE (rather than a standalone editor and command line tools - that is an option I occasionally use too depending on the

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-20 03:30, Hans-Peter Diettrich het geskryf: possibly a dedicated mailing list, chat room... Graeme, you seem to be the git expert, what would you suggest for the repository topic? SourceForge has good project management tools, from bug reporting, mailing lists (though I prefer

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-22 03:41, Travis Siegel het geskryf: personally, if I wanted to do something major with fpc, I'd not bother trying to get it integrated to the main branch, I'd spawn my own project, call it something else, and make it clear that it comes from It seems more and more people are

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-22 12:43, Adem het geskryf: This 'list noise' concept must be peculiar to FPC/Lazarus crowd for I have never seen it come up anywhere else. +1 Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net:8080/fpgui/

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-22 13:02, Aleksa Todorovic het geskryf: First, how would you prove you're worthy of the task? Firstly, you need to understand how FPC development works, and to accept that. Secondly, you need to show other FPC developers that you are willing to work (continuous task) and work as

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-10-22 12:47, Hans-Peter Diettrich het geskryf: Regardless of the reasons, a separate git repository would allow for any number of additional contributions. My problem still is how to set up such a repository, for public use, and how to sync it with the SVN trunk. Can your

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 22 October 2010 20:20, Marco van de Voort wrote: Graeme's last mail where he explains he just wants to drop quick and dirty patches AND IT IS FPC'S CORE TEAM JOB to make head or tails of it, explains the fundamental misconception better than I could do here. And here I thought that is what

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2010/10/23 Adem listmem...@letterboxes.org: work, use git to ingrate that fix/feature after every update. This way, you will have micro-forked FPC (or Lazarus or whatever) but it is This works very well indeed. I have +- 15 such feature branches for Lazarus IDE alone, and it takes all of 1

[fpc-other] Programming Language Index (tiobe index)

2010-10-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Top 20 languages for 2010 so far: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html Hey, Delphi (aka Object Pascal) is 12th - that's not bad, though its ranking is falling. :-( But again, look at that spike back in 2005. Just shows what new management can do.

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

2010-11-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-11-01 13:02, Sven Barth het geskryf: It was always the case in the implementation (as far as I'm aware of), but it might be that the documentation didn't reflect that ^^ Yes, Michael just confirm that. The docs were wrong. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] I found FPC v0.2 source code :-)

2012-01-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 30 January 2012 14:44, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: A multi adapter set to 3V will give you about 5V lightly loaded, and set to 6V will give you about 5V on moderate load. The point about the ones that Henry cited is that they're mini switchmodes, they've got stable output and run cooler than

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

2012-09-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-09-26 14:22, Henry Vermaak wrote: I haven't found a project that uses NNTP for a long time. fpGUI - GUI Toolkit since 2005/6) tiOPF - Object Persistence Framework since 1999) OpenWatcom - C/C++ Compiler,IDE,Debugger,etc. Indy - Internet components used by Delphi and FPC. NexusDB -

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

2012-09-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-09-27 10:11, Sven Barth wrote: I think Henry meant that differently. I understood Henry perfectly. I worked like that too. Desktop and work, and laptop at home. Maybe our tolerances to what is brain energy is quite different. Maybe Henry just hasn't bother to learn the shortcuts or

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

2012-09-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-09-27 11:13, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: best to organise a backend, particularly in view of typical discussion-group (innd etc.) servers' very poor resilience to e.g. abrupt shutdown. I use 'sn' NNTP Server. It runs on just about any *nix type operating system. It is ideal for small to

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

2012-09-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-09-27 08:34, Sven Barth wrote: Btw: Do you know where this S with accent comes from? I have noticed this in nearly every mail of you already. I see those too. It seems his email client (Outlook for Mac v14) is not setup very well. Some of his posts are encoded ISO-8859-1, which is

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

2012-09-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-09-28 10:38, Henry Vermaak wrote: already explained why I prefer email, but I'm not trying to convert anyone. Neither am I. I just pointed out my opinion and experiences. Some seem to read more into that than I. It's interesting to note that both fpgui and mse{ide|gui} are using

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

2012-09-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-09-29 13:36, Cephas Atheos wrote: How many of you reading this message could, say, at 6:30 tonight, fix a configuration problem on the mailing list server, if whoever usually looks after it got called away and was uncontactable? From where you sit right now? What about if a hacker logs

Re: [fpc-other] Re: fpc-other Digest, Vol 62, Issue 1

2012-10-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-10-06 00:08, Cephas Atheos wrote: You're not seriously comparing nntp clients with browser clients and claiming that news servers are just as popular and useable as forums, and more reliable to boot? Seriously? Seriously? Well, I think so. One of the critical points I tried to

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] G+ community for Free Pascal and Lazarus

2012-12-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-12-11 13:40, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: Not exactly a nice neutral post :-) I have to keep up my appearances. ;-) The two links are the same ? Oops, a copy-n-paste error. Here is the correct Delphi link: https://plus.google.com/communities/103113685381486591754 Regards,

Re: [fpc-other] What does Embarcadero spend there time on

2013-03-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-08 13:07, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: least care to post a summary and possibly a TinyURL? Or do your regular rants about netiquete only apply to other people? Where does that come from? 1) I posted to fpc-other, where anything goes 2) The message was short and to the point. Not to

Re: [fpc-other] What does Embarcadero spend there time on

2013-03-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-08 14:55, Jonas Maebe wrote: yourself in the role of moderator on other lists and deriding people (rather than contacting the moderators and asking them to do something I guess the moderators simply don't do the job they were assigned or volunteered for. Also, there as no specific

Re: [fpc-other] What does Embarcadero spend there time on

2013-03-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-08 16:04, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I really don't want to prolong this and perhaps upset more people than necessary, but has it occurred to you that that's how mailing lists work and that possibly your expectations are unreasonable? Unreasonable? Not at all. Maybe I just

Re: [fpc-other] What does Embarcadero spend there time on

2013-03-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-08 17:38, Tomas Hajny wrote: - I believe that the response of Graeme to comment from Jonas was clearly inappropriate (calling others idiots is always inappropriate in my view and never leads to any positive outcome) Please note: I did NOT mention any names, so there was no finger

Re: [fpc-other] Goodbye, and thanks for the fishes

2013-03-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-08 18:22, Marco van de Voort wrote: bit. (IOW, if you go back to C++, what will you use as GUI?) You would be crazy [@Mark Jonas: it's a figure of speech] if you don't choose Qt. One doesn't have to like it, but if I'm leaving Pascal because it is too tiring to defend being in a

Re: [fpc-other] Test

2014-01-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2014-01-03 17:32, Florian Klaempfl wrote: Seems to have gotten through fine. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ ___ fpc-other maillist -

Re: [fpc-other] Alternatives to SourceForge etc.

2014-02-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2014-02-04 12:52, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Is anybody aware of any (free) alternative to SourceForge, Google Code etc. that operates entirely in Europe and strictly in compliance with European law? Yes, you can use Gitorious. It was started in Norway, and still run from there. The

Re: [fpc-other] Alternatives to SourceForge etc.

2014-02-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2014-02-05 14:13, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Thanks, noted although their reticence to publish pricing stands against them. I believe that is only if you want a private or corporate repository. SourceForge and Github do exactly the same. I must admit that I was hoping to find something

Re: [fpc-other] test

2014-12-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Hans-peter, On 2014-12-09 01:17, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: I've changed my mail account, hope that it doesn't bounce so often DoDi Nope, it didn't work. ;-) Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-other] FPC website

2015-01-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Programming, I can't ping it either. I get the same error as you. But when I use that URL in my web browser it works and loads the site just fine. I guess they set up the server not to respond to pings - something done quite often these days. Regards, Graeme On 2015-01-31 03:36,

Re: [fpc-other] Anybody using ultra-wide or square monitors for programming?

2015-03-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Marco, On 2015-03-22 20:54, Marco van de Voort wrote: I use a 27 Ilyama Prolite fullhd screen rotated to portrait with a secondary fullhd screen Would you mind sharing a photo of you screens with the apps laid out in the usual way you work? Searching the net I see quite a few posts

[fpc-other] Anybody using ultra-wide or square monitors for programming?

2015-03-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Anybody using something like the DELL U2913WM ultra-wide 2560x1080 monitor as an alternative to dual monitors? It has a unique aspect ratio of 21:9 at 29-inch size. http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home/Peripherals/dell-u2913wm/pd.aspx?refid=dell-u2913wmcs=ukdhs1s=dhs Or something like the

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

2015-03-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Florian, On 2015-03-15 14:40, Florian Klämpfl wrote: with git-svn 'git svn' is super useful - I use it often. It is merely a stop-gap though. It limits a git repo (features) a lot. But like I said, it is still useful. Regards, Graeme ___

Re: [fpc-other] Google Code closing down

2015-03-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Mark, On 2015-03-15 13:54, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: for small and slow-moving projects a hybrid approach would be possible: Sure it would be possible, but definitely not the most efficient way of working. In this day and age time is money - more than ever before. I simply find Git a lot

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

2015-03-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, On 2015-03-15 14:11, vfclists . wrote: I think such a tool with documentation on how it was built would be the best advert for Lazarus and FreePascal. Graeme? I've tried ever GUI tool under the sun for Git. They all have there faults. In most cases they often get confused about the actual

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

2015-03-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Martin, On 2015-03-16 13:17, Martin Frb wrote: Local commits (commit, without push) can be a huge advantage. Ah yes, but they loved the idea shortly afterwards. Then weeks later when I mentioned the rebase command to neaten up local commits before you make it public - that was another

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

2015-03-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Martin, On 2015-03-16 12:35, Martin Frb wrote: better product, simply means: Compared to others it scores better on more use cases. Agreed. :-) Different people learn in different ways. There will be a fair share of people for whom taking their first steps into using a repository

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

2015-03-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Frank, On 2015-03-16 12:08, vfclists . wrote: have there been any good surveys supporting that conclusion? Yes, mine. :-P G. ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

2015-03-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Mark, On 2015-03-16 11:50, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: details perhaps they'd explain them, after all /somebody/ has to give Graeme something concrete on which to build his argument :-) hehehe... Just watch Linus's Google Tech Talk on YouTube. ;-) I can also add that SubVersion has *no*

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

2015-03-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Martin, On 2015-03-16 14:35, Martin Frb wrote: A simple git alias can do that for you all in one command. ;-) And in a GUI? The only GUI on windows that was to my taste, is Tortoise. And exactly why I don't bother with 3rd party GUI frontends. They *all* lack git features. I found

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

2015-03-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Florian, On 2015-03-16 19:51, Florian Klämpfl wrote: But why do you use Pascal then? Sadly, I'm slowly moving to Java. Go where the work is. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

2015-03-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Martin, On 2015-03-15 20:32, Martin Frb wrote: But that does not change, that there are developers who store their projects in GIT, but who do not use the features at all. For such a developer it can be said, that even CVS has more feature, than the set of features they use in GIT.

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

2015-03-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Martin, On 2015-03-15 20:49, Martin Frb wrote: I did judge your statement on it, that /As 99% of developers would tell you, Git is simply// the better product./ My apologies if there has been some confusion. Probably down to a language barrier issue. In the context the usage of 99%

Re: [fpc-other] Anybody using ultra-wide or square monitors for programming?

2015-03-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Mark, On 2015-03-22 21:07, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: No, but an observation if I may. A few months ago I moved from a couple of large (in their day) Multisync LCDs mounted flat, to 4x slightly I've used two 19 wide screen monitors for 2 years (a couple years back) and absolutely loved

Re: [fpc-other] FPC website

2015-01-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-01-29 22:15, Programming wrote: Any info on this would be appreciated. It must be something on your side. The Lazarus Forum website works just fine here. http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?action=forum Regards, Graeme ___

Re: [fpc-other] $100, 000 for C++ implementation of FPC's -CR option

2016-06-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-08-14 00:49, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: > Well, now all they need is a decent equivalent to Pascal's units > (instead of relying on preprocessor hacks such as #include), Pascal's > compilation speed, decent RTTI, class types (e.g. "class of tobject") > and C++ becomes a halfway-usable

[fpc-other] Delphi's Spain branch closure

2016-06-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Victor [Moved reply to fpc-other] It seems Allen's G+ post has been deleted... I wonder why. ;-) From the post you quoted, that is a *massive* blow to the Delphi product. I see Delphi is going the way of Kylix. Long live Free Pascal! Regards, Graeme On 2016-06-27 15:17, Victor Campillo

Re: [fpc-other] Delphi's Spain branch closure

2016-06-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-06-27 16:09, Luca Manganelli wrote: > Where's the G+ thread? Try this URL: https://plus.google.com/u/0/105481197125997414290/posts/FnLvMteQ4dU G. ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-other] Delphi's Spain branch closure

2016-06-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-06-27 16:04, Victor Campillo wrote: > The Allen's post is still there, it's posted at the beginning of the G+ > thread. I saw you just write to that thread now. The original link from the fpc-pascal post didn't work, so I assumed it was deleted. I eventually found it after some G+

[fpc-other] Re-purpose old laptops for an extended desktop

2016-02-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, For developers that always want more desktop space... If you have old laptops laying around, Xdmx is a fantastic way to re-purpose those old laptops and let them act as an extended desktop for your main system. It supports up to 16 computers.

Re: [fpc-other] Re-purpose old laptops for an extended desktop

2016-02-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, On 2016-02-24 15:06, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > x2x is specifically for controlling multiple computers with a single > keyboard and mouse. As such windows are limited to the size dictated by > the screen Ah, okay that is similar to VNC or RDP then. Very different to what Xdmx does -

Re: [fpc-other] Submitting fpc-devel mailing list to Gmane service.

2016-03-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 27/02/2016 14:18, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: but messages with embedded HTML etc. tend not to make it past the spam filters. And that's a good thing. HTML adds nothing to discussions and just eats up bandwidth and storage. Use plain text to communicate - it has worked for decades before,

[fpc-other] LCD font hinting setting on a multi-monitor setup

2016-07-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I'm developing with a 3 monitor setup. All were in landscape mode and everything was fine. Yesterday I decided to rotate the two outer monitors into portrait mode. Since I've done that I've noticed that text now appear slightly blurry. I imagine the reason being because I have LCD

[fpc-other] First 24 hours with my Ergodox EZ keyboard

2016-08-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
In case anybody thought of getting a fully customisable and programmable keyboard - give the Ergodox EZ a try! Here is my first 24 hours experience and the keymap layout I have thus far: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=33649.msg218978#msg218978 Regards, Graeme

Re: [fpc-other] fpc and voip.

2017-02-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Fred, I didn't follow the whole discussion... So what is Opus? A new open source alternative to MP3, OGG etc? How long has it been around, or is it very new (possibly untested [by the masses] technology). Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-other maillist

Re: [fpc-other] Git repository of FPC not syncing with SVN

2017-02-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-02-12 15:18, Victor Campillo wrote: > Graeme, could you check the issue? Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I rely and others to report such issue as I don't use FPC trunk that much. The reason in bombs out every now and again, is when new developers get commit access to SVN,

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Delphi may have Linux support next year

2016-08-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-08-30 13:12, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > Yes, it is a crosscompiler with their paserver remote debug solution. Thanks for confirming. > Also afaik the compiler is the same as for mobile targets, with probably the > same limitations, and not the win32/win64 delphi compiler. :-/ >

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Delphi may have Linux support next year

2016-08-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-08-30 06:15, Anthony Walter wrote: > What might be interesting is if the Delphi command line compiler could run > on AMD64 Linux, but that's yet to be seen. [I would assume your message is off-topic, so I set the reply-to of this message to FPC-Other] I doubt it will actually run on

Re: [fpc-other] Underscores in numerical literals - grouping

2016-11-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-11-23 12:14, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > In your screenshot you use empty lines > but no comment lines to separate the blocks. It makes no difference... it has the same result. See attached screenshot, where I added comments using a // prefix. You seem to be missing how indentation or

Re: [fpc-other] Underscores in numerical literals - grouping

2016-11-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-11-23 12:38, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > But this happens quite often in my code in function/procedure > declarations as I align the parameters and directly after this See attached screenshot. It shows three options. 1) your original code 2) I live to define each parameter

Re: [fpc-other] Underscores in numerical literals - grouping

2016-11-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-11-22 18:29, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > I tried a new file in JEdit (I don't know what format this has then) > but a line beginning with double backslash did not separate the blocks. > Even worse, it was taken as the first column of the whole block. See attached. Regards, Graeme --

Re: [fpc-other] Underscores in numerical literals - grouping

2016-11-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Damn spelling mistakes. Seems I'm having finger troubles today. :-) > other languages), so if need be, add blacks lines if you must. Often it Should have been: ... so if need be, add _blank_ lines if you must. > use ET. Also, if you want what things to be aligned when using an ET Should

Re: [fpc-other] Underscores in numerical literals - grouping

2016-11-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-11-23 11:25, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > I am wondering how you can achieve this kind of code alignment Yes, easily, because only lines 1 & 2 have TAB characters. Line 3 has no TAB characters, so ET's algorithm doesn't need to do anything with it. See attached screenshot. Also remember,

Re: [fpc-other] Underscores in numerical literals - grouping

2016-11-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-11-23 13:31, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > Also, you didn't align the parameters in your screenshot as I did in my > example. > I have one 'column' for: If you want columns, then columns you shall have. ;-) See attachment. I've also reduced the tabSize to 2, to make it more representative

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Underscores in numerical literals - grouping

2016-11-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
[reply moved to fpc-other] On 2016-11-22 14:29, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > My conclusion: That tabs costs less cpu time in Pascal code is a myth. Bottom line, in both your 2nd and 3rd set of attempts, at least 2 out of the 3 compiles were faster than the (1st) baseline times. So my statement

Re: [fpc-other] Underscores in numerical literals - grouping

2016-11-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
[moved to fpc-other, from fpc-users mailing list] On 2016-11-22 13:47, Reimar Grabowski wrote: >> hahaha... I love how a con is “fundamentally different concept”. >> How is that a con? > > Fundamentally different to the way current IDEs/editors process their > text -> too much work for a feature

Re: [fpc-other] Underscores in numerical literals - grouping

2016-11-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-11-22 15:57, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > I just tried elastic tab stops with JEdit a bit but they are too restrictive > for me: > > 1.) They do not allow me to start a new table without having an empty line > between. > The following indentation seems to be impossible with elastic

Re: [fpc-other] Underscores in numerical literals - grouping

2016-11-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-11-22 16:45, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > In your screenshot "11 22 33" is aligned with 'ggg ' which I do not > want. Ah, okay. In that case you can't do it with ET, as they are consider part of the same text block (think of a paragraph of text in a word document). Inserting a

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Underscores in numerical literals - grouping

2016-11-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-11-22 16:44, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > Why should compiling and linking be removed from the compiler time? Compiling works on in-memory data structures (supplied by the tokenizer and such) and linking works on newly created object files on disk. Both have nothing to do any more with the

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Missing messages

2016-10-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-10-30 18:57, Tomas Hajny wrote: > > Responding to fpc-other, because it's off-topic. I can't see why... but okay. > I don't miss any messages, i.e. it isn't a general problem (which > obviously doesn't imply that there is no problem). Over the years I have seen so many issues with the

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Missing messages

2016-11-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-11-02 10:22, Bo Berglund wrote: > Do you have any advice on how to install an NNTP server on Linux? I have been running the sn NNTP Server for the last 10 years. For the first 6 it was on Linux, and for the last 4 on FreeBSD. I've been running sn v0.3.8 all that time.

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Missing messages

2016-10-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-10-31 02:12, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: > what?! no linux or BSD flavor? i'm shocked and kinda disappointed XanaNews is a Delphi only application at the moment, and has many Windows specific API calls. I am very tempted at starting a FPC/LCL/fpGUI port though. Good news is, the

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Missing messages

2016-10-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-10-31 08:34, Bo Berglund wrote: > By what I have seen is that Lars cannot continue the web interface to > Gmane NNTP, but that the NNTP server will continue. Ah, thanks for clarifying that. I was under the impression that Gmane was going to close down completely. Nice to hear that part of

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Missing messages

2016-10-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-10-31 01:45, Travis Siegel wrote: > Does this nntp client compile with fpc? No, at the moment it is a Delphi only project, but as I mentioned in another reply, I am very tempted at starting a FPC and LCL/fpGUI port. It does run perfectly under WINE though - that's how I'm using it under

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Missing messages

2016-10-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-10-31 10:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > have been pulled > in that are either no longer available or aren't going to work with > FPC/Lazarus. In the case of XanaNews, the two primary components is use are Indy and VirtualTreeview. Both are supported by FPC. I don't see the point of

Re: [fpc-other] How was compiled the very first version of FPC?

2017-01-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-01-12 09:26, Lukasz Sokol wrote: > > https://xkcd.com/378/ ROFL - some of those xkcd comic strips are brilliant! Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-03-16 20:52, nore...@z505.com wrote: > Cool, is it like a quickbooks product? > Written in fpgui or lazarus lcl? No, not quite. It is called BS1 Accounts, written by a Canadian using Delphi 7 I believe. Everything is written using only standard Delphi components and reporting tools

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