In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > Yes, I gave FPC 2.7.1 the benefit of the doubt... And what did my > little experiment prove? That FPC is not nearly compatible enough with > even a D2009 project - that's a Delphi version that is 4 years old, > and within a month superseded by yet another new Delphi version. > Year-on-Year the "delphi compatibility" is getting more and more > outdated. So stop drumming about the "delphi compatibility" when it > doesn't exist, other to a 10 year old obsolete Delphi version.
A nice example of Creative measuring. FPC 2.6.0 of last januari has mostly 2006-2007 features. And D2009 is a landmark, version, the first one to major break compatibility in a decade with many very major features. (unicode is just one of them), so it is logical that will take more than a year. (2.6.0 branched off just over an year ago) > And even with your "delphi compatibility" drumming, nobody is moving > to FPC from Delphi any more, now that Delphi is again seeing some > development work being done by its latest owner I have no idea where you base this on. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
