Re: [fpc-devel] "Blank slate" next version of FPC

2019-02-17 Thread Neil Graham
On 17/02/19 9:12 PM, Florian Klämpfl wrote: Am 17.02.19 um 02:42 schrieb Neil Graham: I think for the most part, if any clean slate is needed for FPC it is for the Libraries and not the language.  A Class library that was built to support the language as it currently stands rather than

Re: [fpc-devel] "Blank slate" next version of FPC

2019-02-16 Thread Neil Graham
On 17/02/19 10:37 AM, Ralf Quint wrote: On 2/14/2019 9:28 PM, James via fpc-devel wrote: I'm interested in starting (or joining) a discussion on the next (*non* backwards compatible) version of FPC. Instead of being classically object oriented, there is merit in examining a model with ad-hoc p

Re: [fpc-devel] Plain tarballs

2009-10-13 Thread Neil Graham
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 22:44 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > You can then very easily maintain your own plain tarballs, and no need > to download huge archives every so many months. > That looked all very interesting and complex (I guess after I've done it a bit that goes away) But does this ne

Re: [fpc-devel] Plain tarballs

2009-10-13 Thread Neil Graham
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 22:25 +0200, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Neil Graham said: > > Something that is just a plain old tarball of the files needed would > > simplify things a great deal for me. > > Aren't you going into the BSD ports directio

[fpc-devel] Plain tarballs

2009-10-13 Thread Neil Graham
Would it be possible to get plain tarballs of freepascal hosted on the website? I am working on a zeroinstall feed for freepascal and I have ran into various issues with all of the current versions. The Tar of Tarballs is just a bit awkward for zeroinstall to deal with, I've also found problems w

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: copyright infringement in FPC code

2007-11-14 Thread Neil Graham
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 16:05 +0100, mm wrote: > Neil Graham a écrit : > > > > It may mean an easy and acceptable solution. They may just say no. > > Then again it may be like drawing the gaze of the eye of mordor. > > I don't think it is a good idea. In case of

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: copyright infringement in FPC code

2007-11-13 Thread Neil Graham
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 18:10 +0700, Bee wrote: > Maybe we should start some kind of code legality check. Like what had > been done by ReactOS a few months ago against Windows' code. This tool > might helps us review FPC's and Lazarus' code against Delphi code (or > other as well?). Wouldn't it

Re: [fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.2 - Delphi 7

2007-07-05 Thread Neil Graham
Florian Klaempfl wrote: I profiled it some time ago and the compile time is simple spread over the compiler. Only two procedures consumed a lot of time: fillchar and move. I added the fastmove code at this time because we spend at least some time in move. What did you do to profile it? Is it so

Re: [fpc-devel] language extensions

2007-06-13 Thread Neil Graham
Daniël Mantione wrote: Andreas uses a preprocessor to convert the language extensions into Delphi compatible code. This is a remarkable achievement, but I don't see much value for this approach for Free Pascal; since we have the source code, we could implement the features directly. I think

Re: [fpc-devel] what fpc is good for?

2007-05-15 Thread Neil Graham
L wrote: If you read something you don't like on PasWiki, I expect you all to analyze me and write about me. Don't remain quiet! Make your own websites, bring it up on the mailing lists. I would like more people to shred me to pieces with their own websites so we can have some more FPC content