On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But we are few, we have day jobs, and we're not being paid for any of this.
I'm in the same boat. And I did offer to extend or start writing tests cases to help implementation. I'm not a compiler developer (I don't understand any of it's internals), but I can help implement Unicode enabled string functions. We have a few implementations floating around already. > And that is the whole explanation for some features not being there: > it's open source, and a hobby project for the core teams. I did not demand the unicode features... I simply stated a shortcoming when I started this thread and asked how I could proceed with a work-around. Also, I did not see an issue in highlighting my thoughts on cloning other projects. I thought we are free to express our opinions, seeing that this is an open-source community project. I also do not consider myself one of those users that simply bitch from the sidelines and not really participate. I might not have been as active as other users in FPC or Lazarus development, but I have submitted patches for things I could fix or implement. Plus, if I feel strongly about (against) something (like my issues regarding LCL), I do something about it, like I'm doing with fpGUI. Anyway, I have received a answer to my original question and I thank those that participated in the conversation. Always a pleasure chatting to you guys. ;-) Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel