Hi,

https://lists.apache.org/thread/why0ongjzh1xxtsxlnwtq9sog4jrpo1d

That message somehow slipped me - it was in my spam folder and I deleted it accidentally and then I forgot about it.

The crosstests scripts as a whole may have rotten a bit, since Swift maintainers seem to have vanished and thus throwing Swift out has become an interesting option. So if you or someone else find & fix issues there, this is really much appreciated.


In the PR, you mentioned some issues with the Delphi part, and I offered to help.
Yet I already wondered a bit about it:

> That about covers the php support except for Haxe and Delphi as
> per the LANGUAGES.md (I am having trouble building Delphi as seen
> in the cross-test.sh script.

because Delphi is AFAIK not part of that script at all. Plenty of reasons: it is Windows only, the community version cannot be directly dopwnloaded (e.g. from a script) because of the complex procedure, installing unattended is a PITA on its own. Although the license allows to copy over certain files from a legal install to a CI machine or Docker build container, we still need a legal version installed somewhere to serve as source. Greetings from both the chicken and the egg.

To me this just sounds like some never ending story to maintain, so never even attempted to even try it. Furthermore, to say that my trust im Emba has not grown over the years would be an understatement, and all over the place you see people leaving Delphi and moving towards C# or sth else. There are reasons for it.

And just in case someone comes up with "but there's Free Pascal" - yes, you are right. We accept patches and pull requests, and new maintainers are always welcome ;-)

Anyway, if you need help with Delphi, just tell me. I offered to help and that is still valid.

Have fun,
JensG







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