[fpc-pascal] 2.6.0 for Solaris?

2012-05-09 Thread microcode
Hi, I was looking to try FPC but I saw the latest release isn't available for Solaris, only 2.4something. Do you guys plan on releasing the new version on Solaris? Do you intend to keep supporting Solaris? ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

[fpc-pascal] 2.6.0 for Solaris? And other questions

2012-05-09 Thread microcode
Sorry if this is a duplicate. I sent it from my phone yesterday but it has not shown up yet, possibly due to the html issue. I was looking to try FPC and I downloaded the Linux version. I saw the latest release isn't available for Solaris. Do you guys plan on releasing the 2.6.0 version on

RE : [fpc-pascal] 2.6.0 for Solaris?

2012-05-09 Thread Ludo Brands
Hi, I was looking to try FPC but I saw the latest release isn't available for Solaris, only 2.4something. Do you guys plan on releasing the new version on Solaris? Do you intend to keep supporting Solaris? 2.6.0 is available for intel from

Re: RE : [fpc-pascal] 2.6.0 for Solaris?

2012-05-09 Thread microcode
On Wed, 9 May 2012 17:19:59 +0200 Ludo Brands ludo.bra...@free.fr wrote: Hi, I was looking to try FPC but I saw the latest release isn't available for Solaris, only 2.4something. Do you guys plan on releasing the new version on Solaris? Do you intend to keep supporting Solaris?

Re: RE : [fpc-pascal] 2.6.0 for Solaris?

2012-05-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
microc...@zoho.com wrote: On Wed, 9 May 2012 17:19:59 +0200 Ludo Brands ludo.bra...@free.fr wrote: Hi, I was looking to try FPC but I saw the latest release isn't available for Solaris, only 2.4something. Do you guys plan on releasing the new version on Solaris? Do you intend to keep

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicodestrings and Assign(File)

2012-05-09 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 09 May 2012, at 17:46, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Is it (already) possible to use Unicodestrings for file paths? Only if your current ansi code page supports the characters used in the unicodestring. There are not unicodestring overloads yet in the RTL.

[fpc-pascal] Subject: Re: 2.6.0 for Solaris? And other questions

2012-05-09 Thread microcode
From: Tomas Hajny Do you guys plan on releasing the 2.6.0 version on Solaris and is there a timeframe? Do you plan on continuing to support Solaris? I would be interested in running both the Intel and SPARC versions if they come available. I'm not the right one to answer this question but

Re: [fpc-pascal] Subject: Re: 2.6.0 for Solaris? And other questions

2012-05-09 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 09 May 2012, at 18:26, microc...@zoho.com wrote: I didn't find a list of maintainers on the home page and I don't know how Free Pascal development is organized. Hopefully the maintainer will speak up and in the meantime I will look at the build guide you mentioned further on. There is

Re: [fpc-pascal] Subject: Re: 2.6.0 for Solaris? And other questions

2012-05-09 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, May 9, 2012 18:26, microc...@zoho.com wrote: From: Tomas Hajny Do you guys plan on releasing the 2.6.0 version on Solaris and is there a timeframe? Do you plan on continuing to support Solaris? I would be interested in running both the Intel and SPARC versions if they come available.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Subject: Re: 2.6.0 for Solaris? And other questions

2012-05-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
microc...@zoho.com wrote: There are no binaries provided by my distribution. It's Slackware! But the question was, was it really necessary to use such a recent glibc? And what, pray, is wrong with Slackware? :-) Most of the SPARC systems around here are Debian (plus one each of Solaris 8

[fpc-pascal] Re: 2.6.0 for Solaris?

2012-05-09 Thread microcode
On Wed, 09 May 2012 16:10:06 + Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: There is a directory for Solaris SPARC but it is empty. Is it possible to get 2.6.0 for Solaris SPARC? Thanks again. I've got a copy that I've built and run here, but I started off with an earlier version and had to jump through a

Re: [fpc-pascal] Subject: Re: 2.6.0 for Solaris? And other questions

2012-05-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Tomas Hajny wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 18:26, microc...@zoho.com wrote: From: Tomas Hajny Do you guys plan on releasing the 2.6.0 version on Solaris and is there a timeframe? Do you plan on continuing to support Solaris? I would be interested in running both the Intel and SPARC versions if

[fpc-pascal] Re: 2.6.0 for Solaris? And other questions

2012-05-09 Thread microcode
On Wed, 9 May 2012 18:44:08 +0200 Jonas Maebe wrote: There is no real Solaris maintainer. Pierre sometimes works on it and I run nightly Solaris/SPARC regression tests (for as long as I still have access to a Solaris/SPARC machine), but I definitely do not support the platform. Solaris/SPARC

[fpc-pascal] Re: 2.6.0 for Solaris? And other questions

2012-05-09 Thread microcode
On Wed, 9 May 2012 19:02:16 +0200 (CEST) Tomas Hajny wrote: My point was that there has been no official / dedicated maintainer for that platform within the core team recently which is the reason why there are no official builds for Solaris for version 2.6.0. Mark Morgan Lloyd who already

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: 2.6.0 for Solaris?

2012-05-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
microc...@zoho.com wrote: On Wed, 09 May 2012 16:10:06 + Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: There is a directory for Solaris SPARC but it is empty. Is it possible to get 2.6.0 for Solaris SPARC? Thanks again. I've got a copy that I've built and run here, but I started off with an earlier version

RE : [fpc-pascal] Re: 2.6.0 for Solaris?

2012-05-09 Thread Ludo Brands
Your question, as given unambiguously in the subject line, relates to 2.6.0. I'm telling you, equally unambiguously, that you don't want to do that. You might need to start off with an older binary to get yourself going, or you might be able to get hold of a binary for 2.6.0, but

Re: RE : [fpc-pascal] Re: 2.6.0 for Solaris?

2012-05-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Ludo Brands wrote: Your question, as given unambiguously in the subject line, relates to 2.6.0. I'm telling you, equally unambiguously, that you don't want to do that. You might need to start off with an older binary to get yourself going, or you might be able to get hold of a binary for

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicodestrings and Assign(File)

2012-05-09 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: Is it (already) possible to use Unicodestrings for file paths? Only if your current ansi code page supports the characters used in the unicodestring. There are not unicodestring overloads yet in the RTL. I think Joerg means something else. The

Re: [fpc-pascal] Subject: Re: 2.6.0 for Solaris? And other questions

2012-05-09 Thread Jeff Wormsley
On 05/09/2012 01:06 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: microc...@zoho.com wrote: There are no binaries provided by my distribution. It's Slackware! But the question was, was it really necessary to use such a recent glibc? And what, pray, is wrong with Slackware? :-) Most of the SPARC systems