Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-03-11 Thread Vittorio Giovara
Hi all, So some time has passed, do you think we could reach an agreement on the GSoC collaboration? We have to submit our application by the end of this month but I would like to set up a tentative schedule beforehand. Can we work on this together? Vittorio Sent from my iPad Mini On 21/feb/2013

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-21 Thread Vittorio Giovara
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote: > > On 10 Feb 2013, at 22:32, Vittorio Giovara wrote: > > What about (d) is this project feasible? If not, is it can you split in > > (parallel) sub projects so that more people can tackle it? > > I really don't know whether it is feasible. There

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-11 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Mon, February 11, 2013 10:04, Sven Barth wrote: > On 11.02.2013 09:55, Jonas Maebe wrote: >> On 11 Feb 2013, at 09:45, Sven Barth wrote: >>> On 10.02.2013 23:04, Marco van de Voort wrote: I never spent more than an evening on the test though, since I rather get rid of all the ming

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-11 Thread Sven Barth
Am 11.02.2013 11:47, schrieb Marco van de Voort: In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: Then we would still have the problem of the outdated tools. Maybe we could write Pascal based substitutes for them that only need to handle the cases of compiler/rtl compilation... The only problem I'm

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-11 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: > > Then we would still have the problem of the outdated tools. Maybe we could > > write Pascal based substitutes for them that only need to handle the cases > > of compiler/rtl compilation... > > The only problem I'm aware of is cp copying the read-onl

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-11 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: > >> I never spent more than an evening on the test though, since I rather get > >> rid of all the mingw parts instead (think fpmake here) > > > > This might be the best. Let's see that fpmake can handle all that and then > > get rid of the remaining too

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-11 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 11 Feb 2013, at 10:04, Sven Barth wrote: > On 11.02.2013 09:55, Jonas Maebe wrote: >> >> >> As I've said before: I think the compiler and RTL should remain >> Makefile-based (whether or not that is in addition to fpmake support for >> them, doesn't matter to me), to make porting to new platf

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-11 Thread Sven Barth
On 11.02.2013 09:55, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 11 Feb 2013, at 09:45, Sven Barth wrote: On 10.02.2013 23:04, Marco van de Voort wrote: I never spent more than an evening on the test though, since I rather get rid of all the mingw parts instead (think fpmake here) This might be the best. Let's s

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-11 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 10 Feb 2013, at 22:32, Vittorio Giovara wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote: > >> I don't remember ever hearing about this or seeing a bug report about >> this. It's unlikely that this is related to FPC vs LLVM code or debug info >> generation though. And adding suppor

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-11 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 11 Feb 2013, at 09:45, Sven Barth wrote: > On 10.02.2013 23:04, Marco van de Voort wrote: >> I never spent more than an evening on the test though, since I rather get >> rid of all the mingw parts instead (think fpmake here) > > This might be the best. Let's see that fpmake can handle all tha

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-11 Thread Sven Barth
On 10.02.2013 23:04, Marco van de Voort wrote: I never spent more than an evening on the test though, since I rather get rid of all the mingw parts instead (think fpmake here) This might be the best. Let's see that fpmake can handle all that and then get rid of the remaining tool dependencies.

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:04:59PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said: > > > Sven already replied, but roughly in the coreutils package. (the former > > > findutils and diffutils iirc) > > > > Sorry if this is a daft question, but can't you use the msys

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said: > > Sven already replied, but roughly in the coreutils package. (the former > > findutils and diffutils iirc) > > Sorry if this is a daft question, but can't you use the msys coreutils? > Or do they have some limitation? IIRC they were less adapted to

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Vittorio Giovara
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote: > > On 10 Feb 2013, at 20:12, Vittorio Giovara wrote: > > The iOS experience could be improved in many ways, for example in > Xcode you cannot set a breakpoint and when you do so with gdb all you > get is an assembly viewer > > > I don't remember

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:08:29PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: > > > Note though that one of the reasons why FPC tools are old is because they > > > are the most up to date mingw versions. Before they abandonned the tools > > > we were using, and se

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: > > Note though that one of the reasons why FPC tools are old is because they > > are the most up to date mingw versions. Before they abandonned the tools > > we were using, and set up everything in MSYS. > > At least the mingw binutils are still maintain

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Sven Barth
On 10.02.2013 21:29, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 10 Feb 2013, at 21:07, Marco van de Voort wrote: Note though that one of the reasons why FPC tools are old is because they are the most up to date mingw versions. Before they abandonned the tools we were using, and set up everything in MSYS. At leas

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 10 Feb 2013, at 21:07, Marco van de Voort wrote: > Note though that one of the reasons why FPC tools are old is because they > are the most up to date mingw versions. Before they abandonned the tools > we were using, and set up everything in MSYS. At least the mingw binutils are still maintai

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Vittorio Giovara said: > Well the existence of external tools is what has allowed technology to > foster and advance, eg have some common grounds and entry points... > Your (limited) example is not exactly perfect, the tools that fpc > bundle on windows are often outdated a

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 10.02.2013 20:12, schrieb Vittorio Giovara: > > Well the existence of external tools is what has allowed technology > to foster and advance, In a perfect world, with unlimited cpu resources, yes. > eg have some common grounds and entry > points... Your (limited) example is not exactly perfec

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 10 Feb 2013, at 20:12, Vittorio Giovara wrote: > The iOS experience could be improved in many ways, for example in > Xcode you cannot set a breakpoint and when you do so with gdb all you > get is an assembly viewer I don't remember ever hearing about this or seeing a bug report about this. I

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Vittorio Giovara
On 10/feb/2013, at 15:58, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > Am 10.02.2013 15:23, schrieb Vittorio Giovara: >> Indeed, a fpc->js code generator would have a rather limited use. A >> LLVM backend instead could be use on many more levels, and for example >> could improve (or replace) the compilation process

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Am 10.02.2013 15:23, schrieb Vittorio Giovara: Indeed, a fpc->js code generator would have a rather limited use. A LLVM backend instead could be use on many more levels, and for example Not to mention that I estimate that full llvm support with debugging and extending llvm to support everythin

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Am 10.02.2013 15:23, schrieb Vittorio Giovara: Indeed, a fpc->js code generator would have a rather limited use. A LLVM backend instead could be use on many more levels, and for example could improve (or replace) the compilation process on iOS. Improve in which regard? Experience showed that th

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Vittorio Giovara
Indeed, a fpc->js code generator would have a rather limited use. A LLVM backend instead could be use on many more levels, and for example could improve (or replace) the compilation process on iOS. Plus I would like that this collaboration would be about something that could be useful for many proj

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Am 10.02.2013 11:09, schrieb Sven Barth: Having a LLVM backend would not only benefit HedgeWar's JavaScript case, but also all others that would like to use the LLVM backend for one purpose or the other. And in my opinion a pure JS backend would be much harder to implement than a LLVM backend as

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Sven Barth
On 09.02.2013 14:40, Florian Klämpfl wrote: Am 09.02.2013 03:13, schrieb Vittorio Giovara: To do that we are using a tool named 'emscripten' which takes LLVM bytecode and generates Javascript, without affecting performance too much. Yes, we had to write a horribly hacked converter that took the

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-10 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Vittorio Giovara wrote: > I think we could make this work thanks to the Google Summer of Code! This > program (*if* they announce it) basically introduces students to the world > of FOSS development by having them work on projects for an open source > organization d

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Florian Klämpfl wrote: Am 09.02.2013 03:13, schrieb Vittorio Giovara: To do that we are using a tool named 'emscripten' which takes LLVM bytecode and generates Javascript, without affecting performance too much. Yes, we had to write a horribly hacked converter that took th

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-09 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 09.02.2013 03:13, schrieb Vittorio Giovara: > To do that we are using a tool > named 'emscripten' which takes LLVM bytecode and generates Javascript, > without affecting performance too much. Yes, we had to write a horribly > hacked converter that took the small subset of Pascal used by Hedgewar

Re: [fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Vittorio Giovara wrote: Hi all, I'm one of the developer of Hedgewars, an open source video game all written with FreePascal. Please see the full site at http://www.hedgewars.org/ One of the Hedgewars project is to make a WebGL/Javascript version of the game so that it c

[fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

2013-02-09 Thread Vittorio Giovara
Hi all, I'm one of the developer of Hedgewars, an open source video game all written with FreePascal. Please see the full site at http://www.hedgewars.org/ One of the Hedgewars project is to make a WebGL/Javascript version of the game so that it can run in a browser. To do that we are using a tool