Am 06.11.2011 18:24, schrieb Jürgen Hestermann: > Florian Klämpfl schrieb: >> Am 06.11.2011 15:13, schrieb dmitry boyarintsev: >>> Hi-jacking, the thread, and again should FPC chase Delphi forever? >> You mix here result and goal. If FPC supports new Delphi constructs >> depends on the fact if somebody provides a patch. No more, no less. > > I have the same feeling as Dmitry: There must be a time when FPC does > not run after Delphi. Why not now?
Feel free to start a fork and we will see what will make it into trunk. > Other changes were rejected too. Yes. We reject patches to turn FPC into an OS, a C compiler or a coffee machine. No, wait, I think we would accept the last one. > > >> Just as an example: if somebody provides patches to support Extended >> Pascal, FPC will support Extended Pascal, nobody did so in >15 years. >> Result: FPC supports no Extended Pascal features. > > Actually the question is: *If* someone is investing time into something > is this a useful investment? Or wouldn't it be be better to invest this > time into other things, i.e. bug fixes? This is everybody's decision. You decided also to write a lengthy mail instead of submitting a patch to a bug report as well while the patch would be much more usefull in my eyes. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
