P.S. Another idea is to probably compile with our own clone of FreePascal,
and just provide the compiled libraries as long as we keep them binary
compatible ;-) . We can give the clone for free to our customers. This way
you can still have the main version of FreePascal do whatever it wants, and
we will have a version that behaves as we expect ;-) .
With best regards,
Boian Mitov
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Boian Mitov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FPC developers' list" <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:53 AM
Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] Need patch for bugs : 0011503 / 0009472
Hi Jonas,
This functionality works in all versions of Delphi 5-2007. We support them
all, and we have done so for years. We have no problems to compile with
such optimizations turned off. We need proper reference counting. We have
over 300 Delphi components in 5 released and 3 libraries under current
development, spreading over 4 million lines of code. We are looking to
port it to Linux, and other platforms. The Lazarus looks like the natural
solution. We have no problems creating a clone of it, or developing
alternative compiler from scratch. We plan to allow C++ users to also use
the library, as we provide C++/MFC and .NET component wrappers to our
customers. If we need to we can simply fix the compiler for our needs and
sell only compiled C++ supporting versions, or if you agree to allow some
override to the behavior we can support the Lazarus and free Pascal too.
We believe that as one of the biggest component vendors in the world, our
support for Lazarus will help the project a lot. However for that we
crucially need this problem fixed. CodeGear has done fixes for us in the
past, in order to help us continue to support the platform, as they have
done for other vendors, and we are very, very grateful for that, and have
help them (convert) many of our .NET customers. We will be equally
grateful for any help you can offer in our attempts to support Lazarus. We
believe this will only help the community, and the popularity of the
product.
I have downloaded the source, and I will see if we can tweak it and add
some compiler option to support this somehow.
You can take a look at our currently available products here :
www.mitov.com , and yes, we are working to make all this available in
Lazarus ;-) .
With best regards,
Boian Mitov
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