On 2-8-2012 21:44, Bart wrote: > On 8/2/12, Reinier Olislagers <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is it so strange to get rid of this platform that hasn't been supported >> for ages? > > No, it is not. > But we should formally announce that we are going to do so. > Just a matter of being polite. Totally agreed.
>> I have the feeling this platform is kept alive and supported just >> because of 1 single person waging a succesful PR campaign ... > > [The following is not intended to hurt anyones feelings. > Please note that I am not a native English speaking person and nuances > tend to easily get lost in translation, especially when wriiten on > fora or mailinglists] Same here, no insults meant or implied. > I do not campaign. > If something breaks Win9x I try to fix. > If it cannot be done (fixing it for win9x), so be it. Ok. >> ... and nobody >> dares to disagree. > > People (including in lazarus/fpc developers) tend to disagree with me > many times, both in mailinglists, forum and bugtracker. Yep. I think it's one of the charms of the FPC/Lazarus list that a lot of the times we have violent or at least outpsoken disagreements yet still have a lot of cooperation afterwards. > Most of the times they have better arguments than I, or they are just > plain right and I'm wrong. > This may be the case with current subject also. > > As you have pointed out to all, I'm merely an amateur. ;) Heh. So am I ;) > I know many contributers to Lazarus/Fpc are not. > I don't mind that. > If my contributions are accepted that's OK, if not, then probably I'm > out of my depth, and I can accept that. > It won't stop me from trying to contribute (just like you I suspect). Yep, same here. >> Is there anybody else that needs current Lazarus support for the Win9x >> Windows architecture? > > I do not really think so. > As I have stated over and over again: maintaining Win9x compatibility > is a hobby of mine. > No real development (of fpc/lazarus) should suffer from that. > And I think it hasn't. > >> Of course, I'm just a (not so) humble contributor and can't shape >> policy, so I'm just waging a PR campaign of my own. > > I'm just a humble contribitor too. > And I must admit, some vanity comes into play also... > I enjoy it when code of me ends up in Fpc or Lazarus. Got you ;) >> Thanks for listening - at least I got it off my chest, > > And so did I. > Can I charge you for listening ;-) At least I can do that as a professional > ;-)) Just send me the bill... I'll see what I can do with it ;) > To get back on topic: should we elevate this discussion (stop support > for the win9x platform) to the devel mailinglist and see what comes > from that? Fine by me! Regards, Reinier -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
