Re: [fpc-devel] FreeBSD 6.x

2005-11-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Excellent! Will try it later today. G. Marco van de Voort wrote: Is FreeBSD 6.0 for i386 platform supported? I ran FPC on FreeBSD 6, and found no problems. Didn't expect them either, 6 is largely 5 backwards compat. ___ fpc-devel maillist -

[fpc-devel] X11/cursorfont.h header translation

2005-11-23 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
X11/cursorfont.h header translation. Yes, it's one of the standard headers of the official Xlib :) { $Xorg: cursorfont.h,v 1.4 2001/02/09 02:03:39 xorgcvs Exp $ } { Copyright 1987, 1998 The Open Group Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for

Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-11-23 Thread L505
I read the very interesting article about the Systems fair: http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Systems_2005 One conclusion was that the web appearance needs to be improved: .. The websites are a serious problem. They are quite ugly and not very intuitive, and this is the case for

Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-11-23 Thread rstar
L505 wrote: I think like how torry.net, Delphi 3000, etc. work (but you obviously can create smaller websites than that) people should be building independent websites to promote freepascal. I would diagree. Up to now there a tons of sites concering FPC/Lazarus: freepascal.org,

[fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-11-23 Thread Ales Katona
I think the simplest and perhaps most important change to get better PR for both Lazarus and FPC is the web page. It needs to be more wow style. News have to be a bit propagandistic. A FAQ is IMHO required with first questions like: 1. Is Free Pascal/Lazarus really free? 2. Can I use Free

Re: [fpc-devel] X11/cursorfont.h header translation

2005-11-23 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Nikolay Nikolov wrote: X11/cursorfont.h header translation. Yes, it's one of the standard headers of the official Xlib :) Thanks, added. ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-11-23 Thread Adriaan van Os
Ales Katona wrote: I think the simplest and perhaps most important change to get better PR for both Lazarus and FPC is the web page. It needs to be more wow style. News have to be a bit propagandistic. A FAQ is IMHO required with first questions like: 1. Is Free Pascal/Lazarus really free?

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-11-23 Thread Marco van de Voort
1. Is Free Pascal/Lazarus really free? 2. Can I use Free Pascal/Lazarus for commercial development? 3. Are there any real world applications made with Free Pascal/Lazarus? 4. Why should I use Free Pascal/Lazarus? 5. Isn't Free Software equal to crappy software? etc. In other words,

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-11-23 Thread Marcel Martin
Ales Katona wrote: 5. Isn't Free Software equal to crappy software? You're right. About Proprietary Software, there is no need to ask the question, the answer is obvious. mm ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-devel] Systems fair

2005-11-23 Thread Sebastian Günther
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: some discussion points: - one canonical site - consistent style/color on all sites - strip off old bones (TP tutorials, MOS) - merge FPC and Lazarus sites this is about the same we've discussed during Systems... :)

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-11-23 Thread Ales Katona
Michalis Kamburelis wrote: Ales Katona wrote: 1. Is Free Pascal/Lazarus really free? The freeness of FreePascal is already advertised in a lot of places, including the very name FreePascal. Current FAQ mentions (more than once) that the compiler is GPLed. I don't think there's any need

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-11-23 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
Ales Katona wrote: Michalis Kamburelis wrote: Ales Katona wrote: [...] 2. Can I use Free Pascal/Lazarus for commercial development? This is the 4th question of current FAQ. And I assume that you actually wanted to say closed source, this is not the same thing as commercial. If