Re: [fpc-other] Lists and wiki down?

2020-06-01 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, St?phane Aulery wrote: > Tonight I tried to register with user "LkpPo" and was always defeated by > the CAPTCHA. After some times I reloaded the page to try again from the > beginning. After that, lists.freepascal.org and wiki.freepascal.org are > down (connection

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-24 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Wed, 24 May 2017, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: > > I'm positive that some of you are just clever A.I. bots posing as > > humans.. that's where your super powers come from. You're not actually > > humans.. > Hahaha, you got that right! That's my secret! :) For the record, I met him in person

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-24 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Wed, 24 May 2017, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: > Yes, this is one of the horrible things I have beef with. I have several. > () > 2) the fact that the array size is not exactly part of the type. In case > you're wondering what this means, if you declare: > > int a[5]; > > sizeof(a) gives

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-24 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Tue, 23 May 2017, nore...@z505.com wrote: > Pascal and C are actually twin brothers with slightly different > syntax... Fortunately, they really aren't. :) And this goes both ways. > But my biggest hate for C is not C itself but just the one fact that it > lacks strings. Strings are a

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-24 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Wed, 24 May 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > If the Free Pascal team is ever serious about migrating to Git, I'll > happily help out with the migration process. Well, I think the resistance is too big for the migration. The SVN people go full berserk bloodbath mode when Git is mentioned,

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-24 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Wed, 24 May 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Back in 2009 (I think it was) when I created Git mirrors of FPC and > Lazarus, I initially did it with all branches and tags in place. It took > long, but there was no roadblocks. I think the claim was, after the svn 2 git conversion, some

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-23 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Tue, 23 May 2017, Florian Kl?mpfl wrote: > > so they just use git-svn. > > This is what I do as well for several things, but I still think, > subversion is the better solution as the canonical FPC repository. *shrug* As I said, I'm fine with it anyway, whatever. But I can see the

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-23 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Tue, 23 May 2017, Marco van de Voort wrote: > Trust is that people are not deliberately doing things. For accidental > things there are tools (except GIT, apparently) Err...? :) The only way to can fuck up a remote Git repository is by force pushing, if you have write access already. But

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-23 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Tue, 23 May 2017, Florian Kl?mpfl wrote: > > For those interested, read the many blobs about how the Linux Kernel > > development is managed. > > FPC is a compiler and not an OS kernel, so would like to see such blog > posts from big compilers: e.g. gcc, clang I see your point Florian,

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-23 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Tue, 23 May 2017, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > > To get get back on track, I'll restate the question I posed in the last > > message unambigously: > > > > how to avoid that a push of member X doesn't leave a branch in an > > undesirable state that

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-23 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Tue, 23 May 2017, Marco van de Voort wrote: > The problem is that if problems get practical the advocatists suddenly step > back and aren't really able to do more than regurgitate either the standard > beginner "wisdoms" or "you shouldn't want this" or "this is the new improved > ways" or

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-23 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Tue, 23 May 2017, Martin Frb wrote: > Or maybe they haven't forgotten how nice and simple svn is. Erm, I really don't want to be involved in the usual religious war, personally I use exclusively Git these days (for personal stuff), but I don't mind SVN, CVS, or whatever a project uses

Re: [fpc-other] $100, 000 for C++ implementation of FPC's -CR option

2015-08-14 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 08/13/2015 11:47 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote: http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/08/13/1229239 In all fairness, they also optimise it so that they emit fewer checks (if you check whether X of the correct type in one statement, you may not have