Re: [fpc-other] Standards (was: inflammatory comment)

On 19 Oct 2007, at 11:34, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 10/19/07, Jonas Maebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RTF is an pretty established implementation standard Actually RTF is not a standard. That's why I called it an implementation standard (in the same way that Delphi-style Object

Re: [fpc-other] Mac Questions

On 30 Oct 2007, at 20:14, L wrote: Can one use a Mac to compile BSD web programs and then upload these BSD programs to a BSD server? Can one create ELF on Mac and upload to a linux server fairly easily.. (compared to Windows where it is harder to make Elf's) Cross compiling on a Mac is

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

On 12 Nov 2007, at 23:13, L wrote: The fact that the freepascal compiler is distributed with a license called GPL is in fact very much on topic since it relates to the Pascal compiler, download, installation, etc. Quite possibly, and there have in fact been discussions about FPC's

[fpc-other] [job] Porting Delphi XLS reader library to FPC/Win64

See http://www.getacoder.com/projects/porting_some_code_fpc_87172.html for details ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other

[fpc-other] Damn Vulnerable Linux 1.5 released

and one of the new things is that it includes Lazarus: http://www.damnvulnerablelinux.org/index.php/eng/Company/News/DVL%201.5%20has%20now%20left%20planning%20status.%20Bug%20Fixing%20started ! Not sure if that's a good or a bad sign. ___ fpc-other

Re: [fpc-other] Running Mac OS X in emulator on Windows ?

On 13 Dec 2008, at 02:49, Skybuck Flying wrote: So far this has been one gigant waste of effort and time. If you want to complain that you can't get a pirated product to work, please do it elsewhere. You're now also moderated on this list. Jonas FPC lists admin

[fpc-other] CodeGear websites unreachable

Hello, In case someone wonders why most CodeGear websites are unreachable (e.g., the ones I mentioned in my comments here: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13481 ), apparently a bunch of fiber cables were cut in the San Francisco area:

[fpc-other] Job: port a vcl control to Lazarus/FreePascal

http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=1188787 ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other

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

On 21 Jul 2009, at 11:28, Graeme Geldenhuys 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 So unless the authors

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

On 21 Jul 2009, at 12:44, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: FPCunit was implemented from scratch by Dean Zobec, and he gave it to So porting a project (even to point where it shows exact same behaviour or not) to a different language does not constitute as derivative

Re: [fpc-other] Looking for remote working freelancer for a C++ to FPC porting project

On 09 Oct 2009, at 12:08, Alexander Grau wrote: We are a small company dedicated to data recovery software and are going to port over a mix of 18K C++ and some Delphi code to a cross platform (Mac+Win) data recovery tool. We are looking for a FreePascal programmer (student, freelancer,

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Illogical automatic dereferencing

Florian Klaempfl wrote on Tue, 13 Oct 2009: Jonas Maebe schrieb: Only allowing it for pchar/pwidechar, I guess. Then another person pops up and asks why it is allowed only for pchar/pwidechar being illogical because this is not orthogonal. Undoubtedly. I guess the best solution

[fpc-other] Mixing

In case anyone likes mixing Pascal, C#, C++, Objective-C and JavaScript syntax and still compile the result with FPC: http://freeze-dev.de/blog/?p=433 ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org

[fpc-other] Koders.com statistics

http://www.pr-inside.com/black-duck-software-and-koders-com-identify-r1646394.htm Delphi Most popular search keyword: thread. Most downloaded file was IcsMD5.pas from the Simple Reverse Proxy (pxy)(pxy) project Most viewed Delphi language project: FreePascal. :)

Re: [fpc-other] FPC mantis

On 24 Feb 2010, at 13:59, brian wrote: I'm using Firefox 3.5.8 under Kubuntu 9.1. I've registered and confirmed an account, and logged in, and when I try to report an issue I get a dialog up which asks me to select a project. I select FPC, click 'select project' and get a blank screen.

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

On 09 Apr 2010, at 13:26, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said: So then I guess fpc can fake it? The whole thing just seems so absurd. That amounts to a constant cat-and-mouse game, requiring vast resources. It would most probably result in a

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

On 09 Apr 2010, at 14:17, Henry Vermaak wrote: Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine... FWIW, I've read some other comments in the mean time (on Apple's closed iPhone developer forms) from developers

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

On 09 Apr 2010, at 18:35, Travis Siegel wrote: I don't think you need to jail break anything to put apps on the phone that don't come from the store, what's preventing folks from just uploading the apps to their phones then executing them as normal? Apple's code signing process. An

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

On 09 Apr 2010, at 18:35, Travis Siegel wrote: perhaps there's something I'm not aware of here, but the developer kit is free to anyone who has an ADC account, you merely need to register with apple to be able to download the developer kit and develop apps. Getting the certificates

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

On 10 Apr 2010, at 11:08, Alexander Grau wrote: They didn't (couldn't?) write it in their agreement, but I think that's what they actually mean ('Apps need to be written with our tools'). I don't see why they wouldn't have written that in the agreement if that's indeed what they meant.

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

On 04 Jun 2010, at 12:54, spir wrote: I'm surprised of this, fpc still systematically trying to follow Delphi, after so many years. In some ways we follow Delphi (mostly language features), in other ways Delphi follows us (e.g. platform support). Delphi and FPC are part of the same

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

On 04 Jun 2010, at 19:27, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: This brings me to another question. Don't you guys feel that FPC is good enough to stand on it's own feet. It has nothing to do with being good enough or not. Please read the mail you replied to again (second paragraph I wrote). So what's

[fpc-other] Discussing new features (was: [fpc-devel] is that intended? private type section in classes versus visibility)

On 12 Aug 2010, at 17:57, Joost van der Sluis wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 10:41 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Just because I discussed something, doesn't mean I will implement it immediately. I have a large todo list, and items that make it onto my todo list, DO get implemented (in my own

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

On 22 Oct 2010, at 10:31, Adem wrote: Focus on unit compilation/loading and/or the register allocator? Of course, you could do that (and by the looks of it, it already is on your mental roadmap too), but are they really --really-- that critical? Fixing the the unit reloading logic is

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

On 22 Oct 2010, at 13:38, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: This is where I think FPC and Lazarus teams get it all wrong. Not everybody wants to join for life, hold hands and cuddle around the source code. Many times I use a tool, find a bug or annoyance, fix it and contribute back by supplying a

Re: [fpc-other] Delphi on x64

On 06 Apr 2011, at 14:54, Travis Siegel wrote: There is a significant speed increase for running 64-bit vs the same program in 32-bit mode. Especially when manipulating graphics, calculating large spreadsheets, or similar functions. Recoding an avi file into mp4 in 64-bit mode is

[fpc-other] Fwd: A Trio of Historical Recollections

For the historians :) From: Dan Allen danalle...@airwired.net Date: Tue 11 Oct 2011 05:11:35 GMT+02:00 To: development MPW mpw-...@lists.apple.com Subject: A Trio of Historical Recollections 26 years ago today, on October 10, 1985, MacPascal 1.0 was completed. This was an interpreted Pascal

Re: [fpc-other] Embarcadero plans to base C++ and Delphi compilers on LLVM

On 10 Jul 2012, at 22:38, Florian Klämpfl wrote: Am 10.07.2012 09:45, schrieb Sven Barth: Hello together! Today I stumpled upon this http://www.itwriting.com/blog/5966-embarcadero-adopts-open-source-clang-for-future-c-versions.html and maybe some of you will find this interesting.

Re: [fpc-other] Embarcadero plans to base C++ and Delphi compilers on LLVM

On 16 Jul 2012, at 21:22, Travis Siegel wrote: And, I'd like to offer up my thanks for these quote old unquote systems. I still have (and use every day) a minimac with a ppc g4 processor in it, and having fpc supported on it has saved me many times. I for one appreciate the effort put

[fpc-other] Re: GPL Lisence help

(moved to the fpc-other list) On 28 Jul 2012, at 07:28, Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior wrote: Your module/lib is GPL but code linked to it must not be and this is not a violation of GPL. It is a violation of the GPL if you distribute the result under a non-GPL compatible license. Think about

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

On 06 Oct 2012, at 23:17, Tomas Hajny wrote: To be fair, it's probably useful to mention that the example forum prepared by Peter should be better compared to the forum we currently provide on FPC pages (community.freepascal.org) rather than NNTP newsgroups, etc., which we do not provide

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

On 07 Oct 2012, at 12:17, Marco van de Voort wrote: Why run a separate forum from Lazarus? The current fora are already separate, so switching to better forum software would have been an improvement as far as I'm concerned. Merging the FPC and Lazarus fora has been discussed/proposed for

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

On 08 Mar 2013, at 16:14, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: It's not karma, just some people that are outright idiots. That does it, you're back on moderation. Please grow up, finally. Jonas FPC mailing list admin ___ fpc-other maillist -

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

On 08 Mar 2013, at 16:37, Doug Chamberlin wrote: I think the original post by Graeme had nothing wrong with it. Short, to the point, and including a short URL. I agree. The moderation setting was in reaction to (a.o.) his subsequent messages. I stopped following the other fpc and

[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Announcing PUMA Repository

[moving to fpc-other because this has nothing to do with Pascal programming] On 15 Dec 2013, at 15:55, waldo kitty wrote: how can my copy be different from your copy if everyone in the list gets a copy of the same message via the same originating source from the same originating writer's

Re: [fpc-other] Processing passwords etc.

[ moving to fpc-other ] On 11 Apr 2014, at 11:03, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I expect that all sensitive sites (banks, google, etc) have taken immediate action. That was still too late. See e.g. http://foxitsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/heartbleed-example.png (from Yahoo mail). And

[fpc-other] ESCAPE: Environment for the Simulation of Computer Architectures for the Purpose of Education

Hi, In the 90s, a professor and a PhD student at our department developed a simulator for pipelined and microprogrammed architectures (based on the Hennessy and Patterson DLX architecture), in Delphi. We've used it since then every year in the lab sessions for our computer architecuture

Re: [fpc-other] ESCAPE: Environment for the Simulation of Computer Architectures for the Purpose of Education

Skybuck Flying wrote: Running into a few issues with Delphi, would be nice if you could fix it up a bit so that it runs under Delphi ? I don't have Delphi. I've never even used Delphi. You can get the original Delphi version (including some bugs that were fixed later on) by checking out one

[fpc-other] Microsoft TypeScript bug report

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/8967 Fixed by Anders Hejlsberg: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/8970/commits/3b1effb7df5e6221260652280d47b78ae9ecbfac :) ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org

[fpc-other] Differences in opinion (was: )

[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 codepage-aware ansistrings :) Jonas

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

On 27/02/16 10:23, Cyrax wrote: I propose adding fpc-devel list to Gmane service. fpc-pascal list is there already and for completeness, fpc-devel would be nice addition. Anyone can file such a request, since it's not a social list. Feel free to do so. Jonas

Re: [fpc-other] ESCAPE: Environment for the Simulation of Computer Architectures for the Purpose of Education

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote on Mon, 01 Feb 2016: For a demo computer built using this sort of thing, it's obviously trivial to arrange it such that the simulator can load microcode from persistent storage, and can do something comparable for a boot loader. What would be the comparable

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

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Embarcadero has a Delphi 10.1 (Berlin) Starter Edition for free at the > moment. I downloaded a copy and can make it available for download if > Embarcadero doesn't offer it any more. The fact that they offered the software as a free download for personal use does not

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

Hi, I accidentally rejected the message below by Allan because I thought I was looking at the moderation queue of the fpc-pascal list. So here it is. Jonas FPC mailing lists admin On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 09:38:43 + Graeme Geldenhuys

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Doesn't IBM, Linux, FreeBSD etc use OpenJDK? I was also under the > impression that Oracle now also uses OpenJDK as the base for their > releases - with some of their own additions. If this is all correct, it > means they all pretty much use the same Java VM and

Re: [fpc-other] Lazarus accessing dns on startup

On 11/12/18 16:09, Vincent Snijders wrote: I think it is caused by the OPM (online package manager). WIth Lazarus 2.0.0RC3 Lazarus will honour the setting Never and Lazarus will not try to connect to packages.lazarus-ide.org to download a list of available

[fpc-other] Lazarus accessing dns on startup

Hi, Why does Lazarus 2.0.0RC try to contact a DNS server on startup? And is there a way to disable this? Ideally, there would be a pop-up the first time it wants to do this asking whether it's okay and if not, store that as a preference and not do it anymore in the future. Jonas

Re: [fpc-other] how to force make.exe to work without binutils in windows

On 22/05/2020 12:42, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel via fpc-other wrote: > I do not know, if does make sense to compile PPCJVM for WIndows frou latest > stable trunk, if there was An change in its source code between Dec 2017 and > now. There have been some changes, but no new features have been added. There

Re: [fpc-other] Pascal equivalent to The wakeLock.acquire

On 22/05/2020 14:34, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel via fpc-other wrote: > I Am wondering, how to construct The series of Pascal statements which will > have The same effect like in Java. > wakeLock.acquire (); > > > The command > wakeLock.newWakeLock (1, '"Migration'); > Work perfectly. > But >

Re: [fpc-other] Lists and wiki down?

On 01/06/2020 12:29, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > Tonight I tried to register with user "LkpPo" and was always defeated by > the CAPTCHA. After some times I reloaded the page to try again from the > beginning. After that, lists.freepascal.org and wiki.freepascal.org are > down (connection failed).

Re: [fpc-other] target Android 10 (API level 29) and ppcjvm classescompatibility

On 11/07/2021 16:30, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel via fpc-other wrote: > I Am using Android25 Pascal header files, because Android29 Api headers > do not support some Pascal source code lines when overide word is being > used. > > Sure, I know, that Pascal systém libraryes are still generated by using >

Re: [fpc-other] A clever numbergame

On 09/07/2022 16:26, Petri via fpc-other wrote: It's is very clever - there is an artificial intelligence ie. a game tree algorithm so You can't win the game. In terms of programming that's cool, but in terms of making a game that's fun to play it may not be the best approach :) Jonas

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

On 29/04/2023 12:24, Jacob Kroon via fpc-other wrote: I find it very odd the way you write above, and that you insist on defending Nikolay/Joanna. Nikolay is a member of the FPC core team. As a result, we know him fairly well. He really is not Joanna. Jonas