On 18 apr 2006, at 03:38, Sasa Zeman wrote:
It seem that you missunderstood. As a developer, I'm not interested in
looking FPC code nor tracking future plans (details are alse never
published, only future plans), but using it to create working
applications.
In that case, you cannot make any sort of demands or set our
priorities. You can voice your opinion of course (which you did), but
it is just as insulting to expect us to make your concerns our
highest priority and to explain in detail the inner workings of the
compiler without you willing to make any efforts, in particular since
you do not intend to actually help everyone that uses the compiler
(with patches) with that knowledge.
From that point of view it is non-logocal and even insolting :
"Please stop
asking for pathetic requirements. Especially for things where you
don't know
where you are talking about and therefor without in-depth analyses
where
things could be improved." Or "If you want to work with development
code i
think it is better to find out it yourself what is going wrong. " -
especially that bugs in 2.0.2 require using development code...
Afaik the main reason you use 2.1.1 is for the internal linker, not
because of bugs in 2.0.2. The internal linker is not a bugfix, it's a
new feature.
Since I testing FPC and Lazarus, I'm intersting in using it.
However, FPC
and Lazarus currently cannot be competition to Delphi/Kylix. But
the most
important advantages are daily updates and upgrades and we hope it
will
become worthy competitor one day.
You forgot to add "for my environment and purpose" at the end of that
last sentence.
And stay OpenSource, in which I doubt if
Delphi discontinue.
Even if we would want to (and we don't, no matter how hard it may be
for you to believe that), we could not make FPC suddenly closed
source. It contains contributions from tens of people. We would have
to track down and contact every single one of them, and convince all
of them to transfer their copyright to us or to sign some contract
before we could change the license of the compiler, rtl and pretty
much all of the source distributed with FPC.
It's similar with Lazarus.
Jonas
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