Am 21.12.2012 09:23, schrieb Martin Schreiber: > On Tuesday 18 December 2012 19:07:47 Florian Klämpfl wrote: >> Am 17.12.2012 10:36, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Any FPC developer willing to comment on the status of some of these >>> issues (that have been years overdue)? >> >> It narrows basically down to the fact that fpc lacks developers and >> contributors, or do I miss something? >> > Don't you think after more than a year of decision-making about Unicode it is > necessary for a serious compiler to actually make and communicate a decision?
See mail from Michael. > Don't you think for a serious compiler there should be communicated design > goals The mission goal of FPC is: develop an open source pascal compiler written in pascal in a community effort. > and the missing pieces and necessary boring improvements should be done > before adding sexy new things? Maybe people should indeed first work on the compiler instead of developing another gui and ide. I cannot tell you neither any other developer what they have to develop. We could close down all write accesses to fpc svn till the features you need are developed but I fear you won't get them either this way. People would just fork fpc or fpc would die. So what do you propose? > Or is FPC simply a playground for the FPC-developers? > Then that should be > communicated too and I probably was wrong to invest so much time into the > development of MSEide+MSEgui. If nobody is interested in features you need, bad luck for you, you have three possibilities: develop them yourself, pay somebody to develop them or use another compiler. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
