On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote: > On 11/08/16 20:25, silvioprog wrote: >> >> But now I have a question: many Free Pascal programmers are Delphi >> programmers too, having code that can be compiled in both compilers, and >> sometimes they need to debug deeply, entering into the compiler code and >> looking at it, so, can't a programmer contribute with Free Pascal in >> that situation? If so, I have no more questions. > > > The compiler code is no problem, since the Delphi compiler code is not open > source. For the RTL: if they looked at parts of the Delphi RTL source code, > then they cannot contribute to the same functionality in the FPC RTL.
A question: If FPC use the same names, Classes and methods, how we know if a patch was or not a copy? Best regards, Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
