On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > Zitat von Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > types? > > > > > > It will be released in August. > > > > If they are bold enough for this big incompatibility, then maybe we must be > > braver too. > > What, also stop supporting anything but Windows? > > > > Both. (and afaik .NET already is), but they don't have an unix to keep > > > track of, so we can't simply follow them blindly. > > > > True. > > I guess, FPC will support the new string type and create some compiler > > directives/flags to control the default string/char type, won't it? > > No decision yet. It is not really easy. > > > So FPC will be able compile the new Delphi code, although the code will run > > slower and there will conversion errors on non ansi characters. > > No commitment to remain Delphi compat either. Until we 1) know exactly what > Delphi does, 2) if we can unify that with a workable multi platform vision. > > As you said, it is delphi that breaks in a major way. Doesn't mean we'll > follow that. Given that most polls I've seen indicate that most people still use D7, I don't think we should be too eager to jump into the void ourselves... Of course a decision will be forced on us anyway in the long run :-) Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
