On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Warren Postma wrote:
> Hi, I'm a 15+ year Pascal/Delphi developer interested in improving the > FPC and Lazarus. I am interested in helping out with > Package support. Was any work done on this? None yet. > Who was working on it? How > far did they get? Did anyone write up a package-architecture > documentation of any kind? Is there any package-docs that describe a > proposed object-oriented packaging system for the freepascal > compiler/linker? None is designed yet. The specs are simple: Take any Delphi package and compile it. > > I am a fairly competent Unix/Posix developer already in C, and a > god-like Delphi objectPascal developer (as well as incredibly humble > <grin>), and I'd sure like to help fpc and lazarus evolve into being a > real Delphi-like open source set of tools. Right now I think that fpc > needs a lot more features (like complete support for packages, variants > including var-arrays) before I start into contribs for Lazarus. The > fact that Lazarus component "packages" require a recompilation of > lazarus itself is proof positive that Lazarus will be stuck in a rut > until FPC evolves a little. I've always wanted to get my hands dirty > inside compiler/linker code, so here goes... Feel free to start on package/variants support. Personally, I would be most pleased if the Variants are working. It's a bigger showstopper than Packages. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
