On 4 June 2010 13:53, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > And porting 3rd party delphi code.
I've already ported OS/2 Pascal, C#, Java and C/C++ code to Free Pascal. It's not that hard at all, so even if FPC is not very Delphi compatible, porting will still be much easier than porting from other languages. What annoys me most is that there is no clear cut line between portability and improvements. Sometimes the FPC core developers all all ok with improvements, and sometimes flatout refuse even minor improvement (at which point they throw the Delphi Compatibility card). It's like mood swings. If we catch you guys on a good day, then things go smooth - but dare we propose something on a bad day, then all hell breaks loose. The other problem with Delphi Compatibility is that not even the FPC team knows which version of Delphi we are supposed to be Delphi compatible with. First TP, then D5, then D7, then a bit from D2007, another bit from D2009 oh, and then this other little bit from D2010. Oh, and we even have a bit of Kylix in the mix. Compatibility with Delphi is drastically declining, but still no improved design or other goods ideas are allowed (most of the time). How long are we supposed to wait until you guys finally give up the compatibility race, and see how flawed (and broken) it is at this current point in time? -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal