Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] WebAssembly Target

On 2017-03-16 05:46, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-03-11 23:23, Daniel Gaspary wrote: WebAssembly ") I love how they say multiple times in the video: "... and

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Delphi for Linux is out

On 2017-03-23 10:47, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:08:20 +0100 (CET) Michael Van Canneyt wrote: [...] > When did FPC start to run on Linux? 1999? I got the first "hello world" around 1995-1996, I think, together with Mark May. (if memory serves well)

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

El 11/03/2017 a las 11:04, Graeme Geldenhuys escribió: Now the only thing remaining is for all ISP's to switch off IPv4 and only use IPv6 (wishful thinking). Won't switching off ipv4 break old software apps? or backwards compatibility is in place? Yet another latest and greatest I will

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

On 2017-03-10 17:15, Bo Berglund wrote: On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:03:12 -0600, nore...@z505.com wrote: For websites with 10 visitors a day it might suffice... but then if those 10 visitors download a 5mb file even, it's super slow for them... Maybe ISP upload speeds are better in your country,

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

On 2017-03-10 20:36, Travis Siegel wrote: 2 dollarsfor an additional 5GB of storage if you want it regardless of the plan you choose. Heck, I'm seriously considering getting one of these myself, and I don't even have an immediate need for it, just things I'd like to do that I've been putting

Re: [fpc-other] How to set library search path ?

On 2017-03-12 17:37, Fred van Stappen wrote: But how do you do to use SetEnv ? if you call SetEnv in the main program, I guess it doesn't affect the program inside TProcess? I may see your problem now :-) What's this do?

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

On 2017-03-12 18:18, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-03-12 21:27, nore...@z505.com wrote: With 1.8Mbps up link, that's roughly 0.2 mega bytes per second, so, if you run servers from your home that your customers access, what happens if someone downloads a 100MB file And that is exactly why

Re: [fpc-other] How to set library search path ?

On 2017-03-12 18:25, Giuliano Colla wrote: As far as Linux and FreeBSD are concerned, my suggestion would be that you launch your application from a shell script, which does the work. Sort of an executable file called MyProg.sh What happens if you use a function that launches the shell and

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

On 2017-03-10 20:35, Travis Siegel wrote: Just for reference, a T1 hasn't costed thousands of dollars for more than 20 years. The last time I had one, it was less than 600 a month, and that was more than 10 years ago. Indeed, I only did research on them about 15-20 years ago and haven't done

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

On 2017-03-12 15:22, Luca Olivetti wrote: El 12/03/17 a les 19:08, Graeme Geldenhuys ha escrit: On 2017-03-12 16:09, nore...@z505.com wrote: Won't switching off ipv4 break old software apps? or backwards compatibility is in place? As far as I know IPv6 is backwards compatible (in that it can

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

On 2017-03-10 07:18, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Last night I was investigating the idea of moving some of my personal and company VMs and services to a remote cloud based VPS (Virtual Private Server). eg: https://www.vultr.com/ https://www.vultr.com/pricing/

Re: [fpc-other] StrumPract, the Swiss knife of musicians.

On 2017-07-24 07:18, Fred van Stappen wrote: Does it have anything to do with MIDI? No, all is done with wav files coupled with a endless sine wave. p.s. "learn to play drums in 4 lessons".. okay but I am a drummer and it ok me a little longer than that ;-) Huh. of course. I am a drummer

Re: [fpc-other] StrumPract, the Swiss knife of musicians.

On 2017-07-13 09:27, Fred van Stappen wrote: Hello. I am happy to announce the born of StrumPract. It was created using fpc, msegui and uos. StrumPract has various tools for musicians. Learn to play drums set in 4 lessons. Practice your instrument with a editable drums machine. Tune your

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] homepage - no foundation link

On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Maybe I'm going blind (considering the amount of screen time its very likely), but I don't see any link to the Free Pascal Foundation from the Free Pascal homepage? https://www.freepascal.org/ Why is that? Surely the two should be

[fpc-other] Who actually invented open source?

I was thinking, there are people who think they invented free/open source software and are some kind of prodigy for doing so, i.e. Stallman, Eric S Raymond, But wasn't it mathematicians, long ago, who released their math to the public as open source math texts? AFAIK no mathematician put

Re: [fpc-other] Developer workflow with Ergodox

On 2017-05-14 19:28, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-14 22:09, nore...@z505.com wrote: Does it solve the Shift Key strains issue? Yes, you can reprogram the keyboard layout any way you want. Modifying a layout is very simple via code. And even if that is too much for you, there is visual

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

On 2017-05-21 07:58, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Use Java instead. ;-) Check. Oh wait, that's what I did for that project. Well, Java also has its issues. ... import java.util.*; class

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

On 2017-05-18 10:05, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-18 15:58, Reimar Grabowski wrote: A real game would be done differently and then FPC is fast. Oh, so work around the FPC problem. I get it now. ;-) Wanne do PacMan in 160x100 resolution, no problem for FPC. Check. Wanne do

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

On 2017-05-23 04:23, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-22 23:11, nore...@z505.com wrote: What happens if you use the SVN bridge that allows you to run svn commands to a git server? Maybe your wording is confusing, or SVN has abilities I didn't know of. it may just be a github thing, I'm

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

On 2017-05-23 04:23, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-22 23:11, nore...@z505.com wrote: What happens if you use the SVN bridge that allows you to run svn commands to a git server? Maybe your wording is confusing, or SVN has abilities I didn't know of. I know Git can manage SVN

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

On 2017-05-23 09:01, DaWorm wrote: emacs! vi! Let's call the whole thing off and use EDLIN. Don't forget mg https://www.google.ca/search?q=mg+micro+gnu+emacs From what I remember, this one had some nice simple C source code instead of bloated projects..

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

On 2017-05-23 17:41, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-23 21:16, Florian Klämpfl wrote: ... and the code is lost :) Not at all, I have about 20+ local branches in my fpGUI repository. Some branches date back to 2009, 2010. Ideas I had, but lost motivation, or they were simply an experiment

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

On 2017-05-22 18:53, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-22 23:39, nore...@z505.com wrote: What about Rust or plain C? Or Digital Mars D? I hate C with a passion. I'll never code in that ever again. Pascal and C are actually twin brothers with slightly different syntax... But my biggest

[fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

I can't find enough time in the day to read even one single email list (fpc-pascal), let alone two, or more.. How in the world do people (you) keep up with reading email lists and not waste the entire day? It seems some of you have super human powers that I don't have, to be able to both

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

On 2017-05-23 17:33, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-23 21:10, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: Now, in Git, this idiot can do: Plus that idiot could start the fork and his branch without needing to bother the FPC team. With SVN he has to ask them to add him to the SubVersion repo user

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

On 2017-05-23 01:03, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: Isn't java just a wrapper around C? No. Java compilers generate code for a virtual machine, called JVM (Java Virtual Machine). They do not generate code for x86 CPUs or any other ...snip... But the virtual machine is just C code, so it's a

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

On 2017-05-23 15:36, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > At work, I don't even push against master, but I do a pull request > against my own repository, and ask one of my senior colleagues to > review... I don't know about you, but to me this sounds a lot more > like teamwork, than going around

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

On 2017-05-22 18:39, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-22 22:45, nore...@z505.com wrote: The amount of nesting and indented procedures inside classes in Java is horrible, IMO. It's not a Java language issue, but the indent preference of the developer. Many Java IDE's support multiple

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

On 2017-05-26 10:27, Ralf Quint wrote: On 5/26/2017 4:36 AM, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: hahaha... nope... just experienced readers of messages who have learned how to work through them fairly quickly and easily... i will grant that it does take an hour or two... if i'm offering someone

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

On 2017-05-25 06:10, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 25/05/17 10:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-25 09:02, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:> even if most of the time he> pushes it far harder than many of us enjoy. I’m afraid it’s an occupational habit. My job as a technical consultant and

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

On 2017-05-25 16:04, mar...@stack.nl wrote: But Florian's statements just bugged me, and I see no proof to convince me otherwise - a compiler is just a complex project. Nothing "special" as he claimed it to be. I do think Nikolay's point of it being more interconnected describes it

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

On 2017-05-25 16:21, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 05/26/2017 12:16 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-25 22:04, Marco van de Voort wrote: There are no narrow interfaces that are natural seams for modularization inside the compiler. Yet the “packages” and “rtl” directories is just that -

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

On 2017-05-24 08:54, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: Hi, On Wed, 24 May 2017, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: > I'm positive that some of you are just clever A.I. bots posing as > humans.. that's where your super powers come from. You're not actually > humans.. Hahaha, you got that right! That's my

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

On 2017-05-25 09:18, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: This is directed at Florian primarily, but any other FPC core member is welcome to chip in. Since Florian mentioned that a compiler project is "rocket science" [not his direct words, but he hinted at that] and totally different to any other software

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

On 2017-05-25 04:20, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: while i understand what you are saying, i always get a huge belly laugh when someone says anything about cluttering an inbox... that's just crazy when you have filters that can easily move new mail to its own folder for reading... each of the

Re: [fpc-other] Google Invents Pascal

On 2017-05-18 10:20, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: According to http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/17/android_kotlin_java_alternative/ a language called Kotlin is now one of the preferred few for Android development. According to https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/basic-syntax.html it looks