Am 21.12.2012 12:58, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > On 21/12/12 10:15, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> >> It would be good to keep those facts in mind before ranting. > > I was simply bringing some of those questions (which I had too) to > light. Unicode has been "under development" for many years, and has come > to a halt - with no final decisions being made. This is very frustrating > for those using FPC. And even if we wanted to contribute in that regard, > how could we, if the FPC team itself doesn't know what it wants. > > I would also like to point out that I am well aware that FPC is a "part > time project" for you guys. I never demanded anything with my original > post, simply asking what the progress was. > > In the same breath, you guys work on FPC - that's your hobby project. > Others work on Lazarus, MSEide, fpGUI, tiOPF, FPTest, FP Debugger, > OnGuard, etc etc. So comments like Florian's - suggesting that "if you > want a feature, implement it your self" is often not an option. I'm > skilled in certain programming, definitely not compiler design. So it > seems quite logical to leave such compiler work to those that know how > to do it,
Well, then you depend on those people. > or that are already familiar with the code base. Believe me, the compiler contains a lot of code I never have touched or even seen ... > documentation updates etc. This might mean jack-shit to somebody like > Florian, but we are not all compiler designers, Me neither, I'am electrical engineer and twenty years ago I needed a 32 bit pascal compiler. > and I'm already swamped > with other open-source projects I work on. > This applies to everybody I guess :) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
