On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 00:42, Florian Klämpfl <flor...@freepascal.org> wrote: >> Anyway, what I suggest is IMO a good compromise and should satisfy both >> sides -- >> Felipe can continue development of his packages unobstucted, >> while the quality of FPC will not suffer. > > That's why I proposed a branch and that's what branches are for.
No, the branches (in svn, at least) are for code that is an alternative/in-progress imlpementation of some features, not for features rejected from the main branch. > For example a TString* class for UTF-8 might even go into classes. But this > needs to be done carefully. There is, again, a continuum between careful development and stangation. While acknowledging great work that FPC team has done on the former, I'd venture to say that is came uncomfortably close to the latter. -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel