On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 09:48, Doug Chamberlin<[email protected]> wrote: > Alexander Klenin wrote: >> >> So I request community for a suitable ideas -- projects should be >> reasonably self-contained, not too hard, require actual coding and >> be interesting enough to motivate students. > > During the Embarcadero CodeRage sessions this week I took a look at the > IOUtils unit introduced in Delphi 2010. I expect developers to start using > it as they tart to use Delphi 2010 more and more. It would be a big > advantage to have an FPC version of this unit. > > I have no idea how other Delphi-compatible functionality was developed but I > expect the right thing to do is obtain the interface for this unit and have > the students re-implement the functionality using FPC.
This is good idea, but unfortunately, there is not a chance to start before the release for Delphi 2010. Also, I can not expect students to obey strict clean room procedures required for such reimplementation. -- Alexander S. Klenin -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
