Op 2010-11-11 15:31, Michael Van Canneyt het geskryf: > If guarantees are needed: > Meanwhile, one can buy a support contract from http://www.lazarussupport.com/.
A applaud them for starting that, but that business is only related to Lazarus development as far as I understand, it does not touch/affect the Free Pascal Compiler project. > Not that paying is any guarantee. I have still several bugreports open with > Borland, both for Delphi and Kylix. Same for other products. In all due respect Michael, you are missing the point. Using a framework or component set is not the problem. Like you mentioned, simply delve into the code and fix the issue yourself. The language compiler on the other hand, is a totally different beast. If I fix the problem on my side, it doesn't help anybody else, because their compiler doesn't contain that fix (and as this thread shows, not everything will be accepted into the FPC source - no matter who is commissioned to implement the patch). Creating developer tools has another problem of it's own. Unlike Delphi, there is no stable, long term shipment of compiled units and specific FPC version, so in the world of FPC, developers tools must ship as source code. This again raise the issue with bugs in the compiler itself. I may have my compiler patched, but others will not, so I can't rely on my compiler behaviour in those developer tools for other developers to use. In fact, I have a crap load of code sitting idle in a private fpGUI branch, simply waiting for FPC to one day ship with "interface delegation" support back-ported to FPC Fixes branch, or to be included in the next major release. So I have a solution for something, but I can't release the code, because I'm waiting on FPC. And FPC having a release rollout that takes longer that 9 months to happen sure doesn't help the process either. 2.4.2 was tagged in June, and we are still nowhere near the actual release as far as I know - almost 6 months later. So by the time it is released, it will immediately be about one year old [taking an estimate here] already. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net:8080/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
