On 22 Oct 2010, at 13:38, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
This is where I think FPC and Lazarus teams get it all wrong. Not
everybody
wants to "join for life", hold hands and cuddle around the source
code.
Many times I use a tool, find a bug or annoyance, fix it and
contribute
back by supplying a patch and most importantly, MOVE ON.
That's fine for simple patches and such patches are normally directly
committed to FPC. If someone wants to rewrite/restructure half the
compiler however, then it's not fine, because such a patch can easily
cause more work than it removes without offering enough benefits that
offset this work.
Jonas
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