Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Tomas Hajny schrieb: > On Wed, April 8, 2009 16:22, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Florian Klaempfl >> wrote: > . > . >> platforms as well. So far they are going a great job. BTW: I >> understand FPC was Windows only in the beginning. ;-) Windows support was very la

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, April 8, 2009 16:22, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Florian Klaempfl > wrote: . . > platforms as well. So far they are going a great job. BTW: I > understand FPC was Windows only in the beginning. ;-) . . No, DOS. ;-) Tomas __

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > As pascal shows, something proven is often better as some hype ;) Good answer. :) > exactly into my picture of git being a big design failure as a general > purpose scm: besides being a posix hack (see also file names: > ".gitattributes

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > hehe... OK, lets try this one more time... > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Florian Klaempfl > wrote: >>> In that case, all you would need is an editor that supports Unix line >>> endings and not try and convert them to crlf as you edit the file - >> Oh, maybe at

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
hehe... OK, lets try this one more time... On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Florian Klaempfl wrote: >> In that case, all you would need is an editor that supports Unix line >> endings and not try and convert them to crlf as you edit the file - > > Oh, maybe at the end I should switch to linux to u

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: >> That's not the same. Then you still have the mess of crlf mistakes in your >> history. > > Well, if it's fixed in a later revision, then there is no problem. And > even worse - if you submit a patch where ev

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Florian Klaempfl > wrote: >> I know, but I don't want some crappy algorithm to guess if linefeed >> conversion is needed or not, this feels so cvs like *g* > > In that case, all you would need is an editor that supports Unix line > end

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > That's not the same. Then you still have the mess of crlf mistakes in your > history. Well, if it's fixed in a later revision, then there is no problem. And even worse - if you submit a patch where every single line has changed (due to

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: > >> although I share Florian's concerns about "magic" detection of proper > >> file type rather than combination of reasonably conservative and

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: >> although I share Florian's concerns about "magic" detection of proper >> file type rather than combination of reasonably conservative and obviously >>... > > That also worried me a bit. Well then you and Florian must have been worried f

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said: > although I share Florian's concerns about "magic" detection of proper > file type rather than combination of reasonably conservative and obviously > configurable default setting combined with possibility to mark other files > as plain text explicitly at

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, April 8, 2009 12:33, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Tomas Hajny wrote: . . >> I wouldn't be able to contribute any longer, because no (usable) Git >> client for OS/2 / eCS exists at the moment as far as I know. > > Ignoring the fact that some exotic platforms

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Tomas Hajny wrote: > context of notes about great advantages of Git, not in the context of your > announcement about fpGUI) that this is a limitation currently and that Maybe a limitation for projects like FPC yes, but not for fpGUI. OS/2 (even though I loved it i

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, April 8, 2009 11:58, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Tomas Hajny wrote: >>> >> >> In this context, any editor which doesn't use LF by default (e.g. for >> new >> files) is not an option unless you require Unix users to use an editor >> supporting CRLF as well or

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, April 8, 2009 12:07, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Tomas Hajny wrote: >> >> I certainly don't want to discuss usefulness of git to individual users >> or >> projects, but it doesn't seem to be very fit to widely multi-platform >> projects (yet) because much fe

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Tomas Hajny wrote: > > I certainly don't want to discuss usefulness of git to individual users or > projects, but it doesn't seem to be very fit to widely multi-platform > projects (yet) because much fewer platforms are supported (directly or > indirectly) at the m

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Tomas Hajny wrote: >> > > In this context, any editor which doesn't use LF by default (e.g. for new > files) is not an option unless you require Unix users to use an editor > supporting CRLF as well or unless you never expect non-Unix users to > contribute to the p

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Tue, April 7, 2009 19:55, ik wrote: . . > And there are even more features, but the question is if it good for all > projects. I don't know the answer, I only know that I moved to git in my > last new projects, and it helped me a lot when I was in a need to figure > out > when I destroy someth

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, April 8, 2009 10:30, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Florian Klaempfl > wrote: >> >> I know, but I don't want some crappy algorithm to guess if linefeed >> conversion is needed or not, this feels so cvs like *g* > > In that case, all you would need is an editor t

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:55 PM, ik wrote: > Another better feature is the way tagging and brunching works. You can mix > everything without making a copy of the whole tree all over on each Yeah, that is great. Purely to play with git, I checkout out a very old state (v0.4 of around mid 2007) of f

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > I know, but I don't want some crappy algorithm to guess if linefeed > conversion is needed or not, this feels so cvs like *g* In that case, all you would need is an editor that supports Unix line endings and not try and convert them to c

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread ik
Another important factor about GIT, is that it's an offline version control. Every person has their own repository, so you if the "online" repository goes down, you have the ability to still properly work on things. If you are working on a code that others works as well, no one hurt each other as

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Florian Klaempfl
> Out of interest, what version of Git are you using? Since v1.5.5 > (fairly old already) they defaulted the setting config.autocrlf = True > under Windows. I know, but I don't want some crappy algorithm to guess if linefeed conversion is needed or not, this feels so cvs like *g*

[fpc-other] asciidoc written in Free Pascal

2009-04-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Has anybody thought of doing this or maybe done it already? I noticed the Git help is written in plain text and uses asciidoc to generate Unix ManPages, HTML, PDF, DocBook etc... I guess in a way it's similar to LaTeX or wiki's. Plain text content which gets used to generate various other fo