Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC release for Solaris not available on SF

2011-07-29 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, While I was trying out OpenSolaris and FPC, I did notice one small issue. The FPC 2.4.4 release for Solaris is not available for download from SourceForge, but it was from the freepascal.org domain. Was this simply a minor oversight?

Re: RE : RE : RE : [fpc-pascal] XML-XSD export: importer how to test

2011-07-29 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 29-7-2011 9:27, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Ludo Brands wrote: Agreed, but you cannot every kind of data type, for that you will probably need the various databases... and hopefully a continuous integration server to run the tests... Sqldb converts

Re: RE : RE : RE : [fpc-pascal] XML-XSD export: importer how to test

2011-07-29 Thread Martin Schreiber
Am 29.07.2011 08:27, schrieb michael.vancann...@wisa.be: Maybe mseide does it too. Correct. Martin ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] XML-XSD export: importer how to test

2011-07-29 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote: 5. I briefly thought about including OpenOffice Calc (ODT) format exporting but that seems a bit overkill as there already is a CSV export format. Any thoughts on new formats - apart from Atom ;) ? That

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC release for Solaris not available on SF

2011-07-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, While I was trying out OpenSolaris and FPC, I did notice one small issue. The FPC 2.4.4 release for Solaris is not available for download from SourceForge, but it was from the freepascal.org domain. Was this

Re: [fpc-pascal] XML-XSD export: importer how to test

2011-07-29 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote: 5. I briefly thought about including OpenOffice Calc (ODT) format exporting but that seems a bit overkill as there already is a CSV export format.

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC fpGUI runs happily under OpenSolaris 2010.03

2011-07-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Mark, On 29 July 2011 08:49, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Well done and thanks for testing. If you have any thoughts please could you append them to the wiki page I'll take a quick read through that wiki page and see if there is anything I can add. The compiling and running of fpGUI based apps

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC release for Solaris not available on SF

2011-07-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 29 July 2011 09:29, Michael wrote: Someone in the core team with access to Sourceforge should probably upload it. OK, I'll post in the fpc-devel mailing list. -- Regards,   - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit

[fpc-pascal] Memds deprecated?

2011-07-29 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi list, According to Joost van der Sluis - 2010-07-22 12:14 in http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13967 TMemDataset is deprecated and TBufDataset should be used instead. If this is true, could TMemDataset be marked as deprecated in the code and documentation? Reinier

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC fpGUI runs happily under OpenSolaris 2010.03

2011-07-29 Thread Martin Schreiber
Am 29.07.2011 08:41, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: @Martin Schreiber Just curious. Have you tried to compile MSEide on platforms other than Linux or Windows? No. Martin ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] XML-XSD export: importer how to test

2011-07-29 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:44 AM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: Because depending on a full-fledged spreadsheet technology for exporting data is overkill. The idea of the export routines is to be able to export data without too much dependencies. That's not really possible for ODS. You

Re: [fpc-pascal] XML-XSD export: importer how to test

2011-07-29 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:44 AM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: Because depending on a full-fledged spreadsheet technology for exporting data is overkill. The idea of the export routines is to be able to export data without too

Re: [fpc-pascal] Memds deprecated?

2011-07-29 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Hi list, According to Joost van der Sluis - 2010-07-22 12:14 in http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13967 TMemDataset is deprecated and TBufDataset should be used instead. If this is true, could TMemDataset be marked as deprecated in the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Memds deprecated?

2011-07-29 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 29-7-2011 11:10, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Hi list, According to Joost van der Sluis - 2010-07-22 12:14 in http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13967 TMemDataset is deprecated and TBufDataset should be used instead. If this

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC fpGUI runs happily under OpenSolaris 2010.03

2011-07-29 Thread Martin Schreiber
Am 29.07.2011 07:42, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: At the moment I'm using it to help develop the TfpgTextEdit component. I've never written an editor with syntax highlighting before, it's a nice challenge. It is rather a nightmare if you ask me... Martin

Re: [fpc-pascal] operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

2011-07-29 Thread Sven Barth
Am 28.07.2011 23:04, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: I wonder if I could ask a silly question here, without displaying too much ignorance. I generally understand the significance of an interface in the Windows context, where COM (or whatever today's name for it) is integrated fairly deeply into the

[fpc-pascal] Re: operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

2011-07-29 Thread Bernd
I have run across another even more severe problem: Although using reference counted interfaces makes everything work without memory leaks there is one problem that gives all the nice syntactic sugar a really bad taste: A := B I am not allowed to overload the assignment of equal types. This

Re: [fpc-pascal] operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

2011-07-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: Am 28.07.2011 23:04, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: I wonder if I could ask a silly question here, without displaying too much ignorance. I generally understand the significance of an interface in the Windows context, where COM (or whatever today's name for it) is integrated

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

2011-07-29 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 29/07/11 06:39, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Bernd schrieb: Occasionally I hear other people mentioning operator overloading as a must-have feature of any decent language but I wonder what real-world problems they are actually solving with it. I think operator overloading is a pain. As

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC release for Solaris not available on SF

2011-07-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 29 July 2011 10:34, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Assuming that Graeme is referring to Intel-architecture Solaris here, is Yes, sorry for my incomplete message. I am referring to Solaris x86 platform release. -- Regards,   - Graeme - ___ fpGUI -

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC fpGUI runs happily under OpenSolaris 2010.03

2011-07-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 29 July 2011 10:01, Martin Schreiber wrote: @Martin Schreiber Just curious. Have you tried to compile MSEide on platforms other than Linux or Windows? No. I just tried under OpenSolaris. There was some compiler errors. Basically some {IFDEF Linux} I had to change to {IFDEF unix} when

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC fpGUI runs happily under OpenSolaris 2010.03

2011-07-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 29 July 2011 10:38, Martin Schreiber wrote: the TfpgTextEdit component. I've never written an editor with syntax highlighting before, it's a nice challenge. It is rather a nightmare if you ask me... Definitely. There are so many things one takes for granted in a programming editor. A lot

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

2011-07-29 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 29.07.2011 12:00, schrieb Bernd: I have run across another even more severe problem: Although using reference counted interfaces makes everything work without memory leaks there is one problem that gives all the nice syntactic sugar a really bad taste: A := B I am not allowed to

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC fpGUI runs happily under OpenSolaris 2010.03

2011-07-29 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, After reading a post about another FPC developers trying to get a development system up and running under Solaris 10, I got curious. I downloaded OpenSolaris 2010.03 (dev 134). Installation was painless

RE : [fpc-pascal] FPC fpGUI runs happily under OpenSolaris 2010.03

2011-07-29 Thread Ludo Brands
I just tried under OpenSolaris. There was some compiler errors. Basically some {IFDEF Linux} I had to change to {IFDEF unix} when appropriate. It then managed to compile MSEide, but the linking failed due to the usage of iconv. I then tried to manually install GNU libiconv but that didn't

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

2011-07-29 Thread Bernd
2011/7/29 Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de: Bernd schrieb: Occasionally I hear other people mentioning operator overloading as a must-have feature of any decent language but I wonder what real-world problems they are actually solving with it. I think operator overloading is a

Re: [fpc-pascal] operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

2011-07-29 Thread Sven Barth
Am 29.07.2011 12:11, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: Sven Barth wrote: Am 28.07.2011 23:04, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: I wonder if I could ask a silly question here, without displaying too much ignorance. I generally understand the significance of an interface in the Windows context, where COM (or

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

2011-07-29 Thread Den Jean
On Friday 29 July 2011 13:43:58 Bernd wrote: With interfaces and their reference counting it can be made to work but the cost of doing this seems so immense that I don't believe it is justifiable in many real world applications (at least not in my application). The performance penalty was the

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC fpGUI runs happily under OpenSolaris 2010.03

2011-07-29 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: highlighting before, it's a nice challenge. It is rather a nightmare if you ask me... Definitely. There are so many things one takes for granted in a programming editor. A lot more work than I expected. [then again, what isn't] Hehe,

[fpc-pascal] FPC 2.5.1 (trunk rev 18036): Can't find unit fastcgi used by custfcgi

2011-07-29 Thread Marcos Douglas
Hi, I got an error trying to compile FPC 2.5.1 (trunk at revision: 18036) on WinXP-SP3. Before update, I ran 'make distclean'. Console output: [snip] Start building package fcl-web for target i386-win32. Compiling src\base\custfcgi.pp The installer encountered the following error:

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 2.5.1 (trunk rev 18036): Can't find unit fastcgi used by custfcgi

2011-07-29 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Marcos Douglas said: I got an error trying to compile FPC 2.5.1 (trunk at revision: 18036) on WinXP-SP3. Before update, I ran 'make distclean'. Compiling src\base\custfcgi.pp PPU Loading W:\md\dev\freepascal\compiler\2.5.1\packages\fastcgi\units\i386-win3

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 2.5.1 (trunk rev 18036): Can't find unit fastcgi used by custfcgi

2011-07-29 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: In our previous episode, Marcos Douglas said: I got an error trying to compile FPC 2.5.1 (trunk at revision: 18036) on WinXP-SP3. Before update, I ran 'make distclean'. Compiling src\base\custfcgi.pp PPU Loading

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 2.5.1 (trunk rev 18036): Can't find unit fastcgi used by custfcgi

2011-07-29 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Marcos Douglas said: 1) manually delete the .ppu's in packages that have this problem ( I ran del /s *.ppu ?and *.o in packages/) 2) delete all old fpmake.exe ?(del /s fpmake.exe in packages/) Ok, thanks, worked! But why this? In some packages in 2.5.1, fpmake

Re: RE : [fpc-pascal] Timezone information in a dataset datetime field?- updated

2011-07-29 Thread Krzysztof
I notify that synapse have some tools for timezone in synautil unit like: {:Return your timezone bias from UTC time in minutes.} function TimeZoneBias: integer; {:Return your timezone bias from UTC time in string representation like +0200.} function TimeZone: string; I don't know that they are

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 2.5.1 (trunk rev 18036): Can't find unit fastcgi used by custfcgi

2011-07-29 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: In our previous episode, Marcos Douglas said: 1) manually delete the .ppu's in packages that have this problem ( I ran del /s *.ppu ?and *.o in packages/) 2) delete all old fpmake.exe ?(del /s fpmake.exe in

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

2011-07-29 Thread Flávio Etrusco
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: On 29/07/11 06:39, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Bernd schrieb:   Occasionally I hear other people mentioning operator overloading as a   must-have feature of any decent language but I wonder what real-world   problems

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC fpGUI runs happily under OpenSolaris 2010.03

2011-07-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, After reading a post about another FPC developers trying to get a development system up and running under Solaris 10, I got curious. I downloaded OpenSolaris 2010.03 (dev 134). Installation was painless inside VirtualBox. Downloaded FPC's 2.4.4 release for Solaris.