Re: [fpc-pascal] which "managed" result types require extra work?

2016-06-27 Thread David Emerson
On 06/26/2016 10:51 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote: > PS: there is an intrinsic that can help you in this process: the > "default" intrinsic. Default(TSomeType) returns an instance of a > particular type completely initialised to "empty" (0 for ordinal and > floating point types, empty for strings, nil for

Re: [fpc-pascal] [Lazarus] FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation

2016-06-27 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Michael Ring wrote: Most likely that Embarcadero has shut down their development Branch in Spain, about 80 people involved. Yes. The foundation was founded already in 2015, but because of busy schedules, we didn't activate it yet. The news about Embarcadero simply pu

Re: [fpc-pascal] [Lazarus] FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation

2016-06-27 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Marc Hanisch wrote: Hello, very nice to hear about the foundation. Are you open for personal members? That is the idea, but we still need to adapt the bylaws to allow this. I would be interested in promoting Lazarus and Free Pascal. When you get donations, how is the

Re: [fpc-pascal] [Lazarus] FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation

2016-06-27 Thread Victor Campillo
On 27/06/16 15:47, Michael Ring wrote: Most likely that Embarcadero has shut down their development Branch in Spain, about 80 people involved. Michael When I read the news this morning I was astonished, I didn't know that Embarcadero had such a big team in Spain (I am Spanish). In the gro

Re: [fpc-pascal] [Lazarus] FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation

2016-06-27 Thread Michael Ring
Most likely that Embarcadero has shut down their development Branch in Spain, about 80 people involved. Michael Am 27.06.16 um 15:24 schrieb Tony Caduto: What events of the last few days is Boian talking about in his announcement? On Jun 27, 2016 5:51 AM, "Victor Campillo"

Re: [fpc-pascal] [Lazarus] FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation

2016-06-27 Thread Tony Caduto
What events of the last few days is Boian talking about in his announcement? On Jun 27, 2016 5:51 AM, "Victor Campillo" wrote: On 27/06/16 10:00, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: How did you manage to find this site ? I didn't make a public announcement yet :-) But seems that somebody else did it, se

Re: [fpc-pascal] [Lazarus] FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation

2016-06-27 Thread Michael Ring
It's already on Heise News (german): http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Stiftung-fuer-Free-Pascal-und-Lazarus-gegruendet-3249526.html Am 27.06.16 um 12:51 schrieb Victor Campillo: On 27/06/16 10:00, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: How did you manage to find this site ? I didn't make a public a

Re: [fpc-pascal] [Lazarus] FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation

2016-06-27 Thread Victor Campillo
On 27/06/16 10:00, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: How did you manage to find this site ? I didn't make a public announcement yet :-) But seems that somebody else did it, see this post of Boian Mitov https://plus.google.com/+BoianMitov/posts/46r34KmgrdQ.

Re: [fpc-pascal] [Lazarus] FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation

2016-06-27 Thread Marc Hanisch
Hello, very nice to hear about the foundation. Are you open for personal members? I would be interested in promoting Lazarus and Free Pascal. When you get donations, how is the money split to the projects and who decides about which project is getting how much? Best regards, Marc 2016-06-27 10:0

Re: [fpc-pascal] [Lazarus] FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation

2016-06-27 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Mr Bee wrote: Hi all, This morning I was glad to found this website: http://foundation.freepascal.org It's about time to have a foundation for our beloved projects. I hope by having this foundation, Free Pascal and Lazarus projects would go forward, being managed better a