Op 2010-10-19 10:37, Michael Van Canneyt het geskryf: > > Changes to the compiler are allowed and have been implemented at various > times with very good results. Paul is living proof of this.
...and you totally missed my sarcastic intent with that message. DoDi's path forward seems clear... Fork the project to experiment without obstructions to prove his worth, or use an "official" SVN branch to experiment, or use a Git branch/repository to experiment. Personally I use the later quite frequent with Lazarus and fpGUI - I have some 15+ local branches with various experimental changes for Lazarus and fpGUI (and it's many sub projects). I have given up contributing my changes to Lazarus, for the same reason Dodi is struggling now (irrespective if the feature is big or small). This doesn't bothers me any more, because I still benefit from my efforts and changes, while others don't - it's their loss not mine. Thank you for open source software! [...DoDi, here is my Git workflow...] I simply reset my local custom lazarus branch to the head svn branch (this way I pick up all the new bugs, bugfixes and features), merge in the various feature branches and be done with it. Occasionally I rebase my feature branch to keep them in sync with svn head development - this near eliminates chances for conflicts (99.9% of the time) when I do merges with my feature branches. I've been working like this for months with great success. It keeps me happy, and I mostly stay out of the way of the lazarus team. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net:8080/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
