Tomas Hajny schrieb:
On Wed, May 2, 2012 12:27, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Marco van de Voort schrieb:
In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said:
The solution is so easy: don't mark it as deprecated.
I also have a clear opinion about Delphi compatibility: Every FPC
version must be compatible to a Delphi version. A mix of incompatible
features from different Delphi versions is useless.
We don't have packages. That is what, D3? functionality, so we should
now
strip down FPC to D3 level?
There exist *limitations* due to the FPC multi-platform approach, of
course.
We cannot claim full compatibility to any Delphi version and we cannot
provide complete list of incompatibilities between any particular FPC
version and any particular Delphi version. If you're able to create
something like that, you're welcome to document and maintain it (e.g. in
our Wiki).
This would require a list of FPC features, which could be compared to a
list of Delphi features.
As far as what is more advantageous for users or not - your statement is
apparently based on certain assumptions which are probably not valid for
all FPC users and probably not even most FPC users. In particular, your
statement is fully correct for users extensively using almost all features
provided in a particular Delphi version and always rewriting their own
previous code (based on language constructs and units delivered with
earlier Delphi versions) to the newest set.
I had in mind users which must maintain legacy software, written for a
specific Delphi version. Or for newbies, which have a working Delphi
project and want to check whether it would work with FPC/Lazarus, too.
Some picky Delphi users jump in whenever I suggest to have a look at
FPC/Lazarus, in a Delphi forum, and report that they downloaded the
latest release and tried to run a simple test project, which failed
miserably.
Other people observe a strange behaviour in an FPC/Lazarus project, and
write a test program to find out what Delphi does. They are not really
happy when either Delphi or FPC refuse to even *build* that project, due
to arbitrary incompatibilities.
DoDi
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