Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-21 Thread Travis Siegel
I'm probably not the best person to comment here, since I've already been blasted in the past for telling things like they are, but me personally, if I wanted to do something major with fpc, I'd not bother trying to get it integrated to the main branch, I'd spawn my own project, call it som

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-21 Thread Adem
On 2010-10-22 02:50, Henry Vermaak wrote: 2010/10/21 Adem: On 2010-10-22 01:23, Henry Vermaak wrote: Did you notice the word 'promises'? Somehow you have to prove these "promises". And, how exactly do you expect them to be proved? On paper? Seriously, if this work was done more co-operative

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-21 Thread Henry Vermaak
2010/10/21 Adem : > On 2010-10-22 01:23, Henry Vermaak wrote: > > 2010/10/21 Adem : > > On 2010-10-21 23:47, Florian Klämpfl wrote: > > This is wrong. If a big change promises significant advantages for FPC > users, it will be done. > > The qualifier 'significant' (above and below) is far too subje

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-21 Thread Adem
On 2010-10-22 01:23, Henry Vermaak wrote: 2010/10/21 Adem: On 2010-10-21 23:47, Florian Klämpfl wrote: This is wrong. If a big change promises significant advantages for FPC users, it will be done. The qualifier 'significant' (above and below) is far too subjective sometimes to even have a hop

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-21 Thread Henry Vermaak
2010/10/21 Adem : > On 2010-10-21 23:47, Florian Klämpfl wrote: > > This is wrong. If a big change promises significant advantages for FPC > users, it will be done. > > The qualifier 'significant' (above and below) is far too subjective > sometimes to even have a hope of arriving at a common ground

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-21 Thread Adem
On 2010-10-21 23:47, Florian Klämpfl wrote: This is wrong. If a big change promises significant advantages for FPC users, it will be done. The qualifier 'significant' (above and below) is far too subjective sometimes to even have a hope of arriving at a common ground. But, I'll take my chaces

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-21 Thread Adem
On 2010-10-20 09:31, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Op 2010-10-20 03:30, Hans-Peter Diettrich het geskryf: SourceForge has good project management tools, from bug reporting, mailing lists (though I prefer newsgroups), I also prefer newsgroups. I could try to set one up, but INN simply scares me. E

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-21 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 21.10.2010 22:13, schrieb Adem: > I don't have the top post ( > http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/FPC-other/2010-October/000468.html ) > in this thread to comment on in a more conversation fashion, as a result > I reverting to bulleted listing of my views on the subject. > > 1) In the fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-21 Thread Adem
I don't have the top post ( http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/FPC-other/2010-October/000468.html ) in this thread to comment on in a more conversation fashion, as a result I reverting to bulleted listing of my views on the subject. 1) In the fpc-devel I have read quite a few arguments that FPC