Re: [fpc-pascal] opendelphi.org

2006-03-17 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Vinzent Hoefler wrote: > On Thursday 16 March 2006 16:35, memsom wrote: > >> Pascal on Linux etc is niche. > > Yeah, that has always been my problem. Programming for environments and > in languages that are usually both considered niche. Not to forget (translated german idiom): only if you swim

Re: [fpc-pascal] Lazarus

2006-03-17 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:34:11 -0300 "Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/17/06, Gökhan Ersumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yep, I said so (on last paragraph) but IMO this is > > bad for maintanence and/or component writers. > > I wrote TTrayIcon component to implement

Re: [fpc-pascal] os dependency with ifdef

2006-03-17 Thread Tomas Hajny
Marc Santhoff wrote: Hi, > I' like to know how I should write code for different system. SInce I'm > no Linux user nor have any experience on MacOS I need to know how to > wrap platform dependant code. > > Since I'm still fiddling with reading the serial port I have the idea > that linux and eve

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpc-pascal Digest, Vol 19, Issue 24

2006-03-17 Thread Geoff Bagley
Well, just to mention a counter-example: My favourite Ada compiler is written in Ada. Vinzent. I used to use an Algol 60 compiler which had been written in a (gradually growing) sub-set of Algol 60. A new meaning to "boot-strapping" ? Geoff __

Re: [fpc-pascal] WinSock

2006-03-17 Thread Hans Mårtensson
Tony Pelton wrote: also, and i'm not sure about this, as i've been meaning to ask, but i think the stuff in the "Sockets" unit is meant to be a cross platform sockets API ? anyone know about this ? i'm going to be doing some (hopefully) cross platform socket stuff soon. I did some socket

Re: [fpc-pascal] os dependency with ifdef

2006-03-17 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Freitag, den 17.03.2006, 11:11 +0100 schrieb Tomas Hajny: > Marc Santhoff wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I' like to know how I should write code for different system. SInce I'm > > no Linux user nor have any experience on MacOS I need to know how to > > wrap platform dependant code. > > > > Since I'm

Re: [fpc-pascal] os dependency with ifdef

2006-03-17 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Hello, On 3/16/06, Marc Santhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I'm still fiddling with reading the serial port I have the idea > that linux and even MacOS may be very similar to my main os FreeBSD. > > I do know Win32 is different, but how similar are the other os'ses? You can mostly assume