Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-13 Thread André Cipriani Bandarra
>Any contribution is good :-) > >Currently, there is a soundex() algorithm in strutils; the soundex algorithm >is geared towards the english language. Having one for the portugese language >is definitely good. It would even be better if we could somehow unite the >algorithms witha suitable para

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-13 Thread André Cipriani Bandarra
Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > >Did it go through the mailing list already? I guess because it contains >an attachement it is held for approval. > > > Yes, i've already seen it in the list. Anyway, the link to the units is here http://www.bandarra.org/pascal/stringcomparison/ begin:vcard fn;quote

FMTBcd implementation for FPC was Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-12 Thread Jan Ruzicka
Hi are you interested in FMTBcd unit for FPC ? I would appreciate information needed for clean implementation. Page used for collecting information is: http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/BcdUnit At this moment most valuable are test cases for different functions. Also more explanation abo

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-12 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
L505 wrote: ... > But compiled with delphi compiler, or freepascal? I wonder if they have a > specific restriction where you can only compile the code on their compilers... > Not that I know of but.. I thought maybe you guys had come across something > like > that The System.pas unit is special.

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-10 Thread L505
| | > Another question: if someone already owns Delphi, they could compile any source code | > from their Delphi CD with freepascal? Is this legal? | | Compilation for private use is legal. Borland disallows to distribute | their library source code, also in compiled (object) form unless as part |

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-10 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
L505 wrote: > | | Do not look at delphi copyrighted source, but get info from public sources > | | like helpfiles for download on Borlands FTP etc. > | | > | | This should be enough to reconstruct a rough interface, details will then > | | later be found by testing real delphi code. > | | > | > |

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-09 Thread John Briggs
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:41:30AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, L505 wrote: > > > | > > | | Do not look at delphi copyrighted source, but get info from public > > sources > > | | like helpfiles for download on Borlands FTP etc. > > | | > > | | This should be enoug

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, L505 wrote: > | > | | Do not look at delphi copyrighted source, but get info from public sources > | | like helpfiles for download on Borlands FTP etc. > | | > | | This should be enough to reconstruct a rough interface, details will then > | | later be found by testing real d

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-09 Thread L505
| | | Do not look at delphi copyrighted source, but get info from public sources | | like helpfiles for download on Borlands FTP etc. | | | | This should be enough to reconstruct a rough interface, details will then | | later be found by testing real delphi code. | | | | I was just wondering, are t

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-09 Thread L505
| Do not look at delphi copyrighted source, but get info from public sources | like helpfiles for download on Borlands FTP etc. | | This should be enough to reconstruct a rough interface, details will then | later be found by testing real delphi code. | I was just wondering, are there any source

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, André Cipriani Bandarra wrote: > Well.. > I had spent a lot of time thinking about how to contribute to FPC. I > thought about contributing with a string phonetizer algoritm i made, but > its works only for the portuguese language, so i thought i wouldnt be > much usefull

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-09 Thread Florian Klaempfl
André Cipriani Bandarra wrote: > Well.. > I had spent a lot of time thinking about how to contribute to FPC. I > thought about contributing with a string phonetizer algoritm i made, but > its works only for the portuguese language, so i thought i wouldnt be > much usefull for most of the FPC co

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-09 Thread André Cipriani Bandarra
Well.. I had spent a lot of time thinking about how to contribute to FPC. I thought about contributing with a string phonetizer algoritm i made, but its works only for the portuguese language, so i thought i wouldnt be much usefull for most of the FPC community. Some days ago i contributed

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-09 Thread Marco van de Voort
> > > > This should be enough to reconstruct a rough interface, details will then > > later be found by testing real delphi code. > > The FreeCLX contains also an implementation though it's GPL while FPC > libraries > are modified LGPL. This is only interesting for Kylix licensees, and products

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-09 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Marco van de Voort wrote: >>>On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: >>> Florian Klaempfl wrote: >- write a bcd classes BCD? >>> >>>Binary Coded Decimal. We urgently need a bcdfmt unit as in delphi. >> >>[...] >> >>I did not find any usable info about the bcdfmt. > > >

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-09 Thread Marco van de Voort
> > On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: > >> Florian Klaempfl wrote: > >>> - write a bcd classes > >> BCD? > > Binary Coded Decimal. We urgently need a bcdfmt unit as in delphi. > [...] > > I did not find any usable info about the bcdfmt. Searching for "Delphi precision tbcd" on google

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-08 Thread Jan Ruzicka
On Jun 3, 2005, at 07:03, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: Florian Klaempfl wrote: - write a bcd classes BCD? Binary Coded Decimal. We urgently need a bcdfmt unit as in delphi. [...] Hi I did not find any usable info about the bcdfmt. What is the req

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-07 Thread Vincent Snijders
L505 wrote: I will submit a crumby KOL hello world zip asap. (next goal is to try an MCK app working, and a linux app working, but I"m not sure how far linux is supported with kol) Listen, 26KB for complete a hello world windows GUI program is not bad at all. Where I see a big problem is lazaru

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-07 Thread L505
Some of the incompatibilities first need to be brought about through experimentation. So start figuring out what -specific- delphi units that you actually need to get working now. If you have a specific unit or source code that needs to be working -today-, then at least you can submit the exact in

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-07 Thread L505
Some of the incompatibilities first need to be brought about through experimentation. So start figuring out what -specific- delphi units that you actually need to get working now. If you have a specific unit or source code that needs to be working -today-, then at least you can submit the exact in

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-06 Thread Florian Klaempfl
L505 wrote: > | Why not both? Delphi is windows-only, so even if FPC became 100% > | compatible with D7, the libraries already available for Delphi are > | usually windows specific, and FPC libraries are cross-platform. > > And we all know they are already doing just that. What is needed is more

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-06 Thread Bisma Jayadi
> Why not both? Delphi is windows-only, so even if FPC became 100% compatible > with D7, the libraries already available for Delphi are usually windows > specific, and FPC libraries are cross-platform. I believe you know about Kylix, which is Delphi clone on linux. Delphi IDE is windows only, a

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-06 Thread L505
- Original Message - From: "Nikolay Nikolov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FPC developers' list" Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 1:16 AM Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people! | Bisma Jayadi wrote: | | >Object pascal is a mature language. Som

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-06 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
Bisma Jayadi wrote: Object pascal is a mature language. Some languages even adopt the concept, such as C# or Java, with different syntaxes and styles. Do not listen to people who said pascal is a toy language, they just don't know what they're talking about. Then, if we are talking about the

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-05 Thread Bisma Jayadi
Object pascal is a mature language. Some languages even adopt the concept, such as C# or Java, with different syntaxes and styles. Do not listen to people who said pascal is a toy language, they just don't know what they're talking about. Then, if we are talking about the object pascal compilers

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-05 Thread L505
Neat, I haven't come across these yet. If you -have- got some working under FPC you should upload them to "contributed units" section. Because if other people convert the units which have already been done by someone else, we would be doing double work ;-) Plus it gets code into a central reposi

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-05 Thread David Butler
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 01:26:34 -0400, you wrote: >> What makes python interesting are the many classes it offers by default >> to perform standard tasks, especially in the text treatment department; >> regular expression stuff etc. >> >> The same goes for most languages; Mostly it's not the language

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-03 Thread L505
| Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: | | > Angelo Bertolli wrote: | > | >>> What makes python interesting are the many classes it offers by default | >>> to perform standard tasks, especially in the text treatment department; | >>> regular expression stuff etc. There's already a completely working rege

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-03 Thread Kornel Kisielewicz
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Vincent Snijders wrote: Florian Klaempfl wrote: Michael, maybe you can write a short description (wiki?) how to create documentation for units not yet documented. Maybe this page can help too: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/kb/index.php/L

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Vincent Snijders wrote: Florian Klaempfl wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: Florian Klaempfl wrote: - write docs for the already existing packages You mean that writing a fpcdoc for the opengl headers for example wo

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-03 Thread Vincent Snijders
Florian Klaempfl wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: Florian Klaempfl wrote: - write docs for the already existing packages You mean that writing a fpcdoc for the opengl headers for example would be useful for somebody? Myself, I always was

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: > >> >> Florian Klaempfl wrote: >> >>> - write docs for the already existing packages >>> >> You mean that writing a fpcdoc for the opengl headers for example >> would be useful for somebody? Myself, I always was unc

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: Florian Klaempfl wrote: - write docs for the already existing packages You mean that writing a fpcdoc for the opengl headers for example would be useful for somebody? Myself, I always was uncontent with the fact that there was no opengl secti

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: > > Florian Klaempfl wrote: > >> - write docs for the already existing packages >> >> > You mean that writing a fpcdoc for the opengl headers for example would > be useful for somebody? Myself, I always was uncontent with the fact > that there was no opengl section in

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-03 Thread Kornel Kisielewicz
Florian Klaempfl wrote: - write docs for the already existing packages You mean that writing a fpcdoc for the opengl headers for example would be useful for somebody? Myself, I always was uncontent with the fact that there was no opengl section in the rtl docs... -- At your service, Kor

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: Florian Klaempfl wrote: Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: Okay, agreed. But what is there that can be done? I mean, yes -- there are many things that can be done by Pascal guru's, but is there anything to be done by a typical Pascal programmer? (withou

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-03 Thread Kornel Kisielewicz
Florian Klaempfl wrote: Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: Okay, agreed. But what is there that can be done? I mean, yes -- there are many things that can be done by Pascal guru's, but is there anything to be done by a typical Pascal programmer? (without the knowledge of similar C libraries) I'm a Fr

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: > Angelo Bertolli wrote: > >>> What makes python interesting are the many classes it offers by default >>> to perform standard tasks, especially in the text treatment department; >>> regular expression stuff etc. >>> >>> The same goes for most languages; Mostly it's not

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-03 Thread Kornel Kisielewicz
Angelo Bertolli wrote: What makes python interesting are the many classes it offers by default to perform standard tasks, especially in the text treatment department; regular expression stuff etc. The same goes for most languages; Mostly it's not the language syntax that determines the producti

[fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-02 Thread Angelo Bertolli
What makes python interesting are the many classes it offers by default to perform standard tasks, especially in the text treatment department; regular expression stuff etc. The same goes for most languages; Mostly it's not the language syntax that determines the productivity factor; it's the n