Re: [fpc-other] Re downward spiral

2023-06-02 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
On 2023-06-02 02:58, Steve Litt via fpc-other wrote: HSN via fpc-other said on Wed, 31 May 2023 21:50:20 + I will continue to maintain a high quality place to discuss fpc for those who need it. . . Everyone else: If you want a non stressful, non judgmental venue in which to get quick a

Re: [fpc-other] Re downward spiral

2023-05-30 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
On 2023-05-30 02:24, HSN via fpc-other wrote: Tomas I’m curious if you have ever been to irc at all? If so can you elaborate on your experiences there? . . No, I will not elaborate on my experiences, because it's completely unrelated to my arguments (similarly to the remainder of your messag

Re: [fpc-other] Re downward spiral

2023-05-29 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
On 2023-05-29 04:55, HSN via fpc-other wrote: Hi, I’d like to say, just because a bunch of people follow a trend doesn’t mean that’s a good idea. History is full of stories about foolish people following trends and bad ideas which lead to their demise. . . I don't tell anybody to follow th

Re: [fpc-other] Re Downward spiral

2023-05-28 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
On 2023-05-27 14:05, HSN via fpc-other wrote: Joanna, . . One of the ways that they can do this is by helping other users in real-time chat. I suspect that many people who use fpc/Lazarus are either unaware of irc real-time chat, have been chased away by people sabotaging it or have been dis

Re: [fpc-other] Downward spiral

2023-05-26 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
On 2023-05-26 05:31, HSN via fpc-other wrote: Hello, All other large projects and enterprises have reliable real time chat support, but not us! The obvious difference between FPC and "enterprises" is that FPC is an open-source hobby project, whereas enterprises having some sort of chat usu

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

2023-04-29 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
Hello everybody, Please, note that this thread (already very long) will become moderated now and no further posts will be let through unless I or some other list moderator believe that there"s a very good reason for it. Thanks for your understanding Tomas (one of FPC mailing list moderators)

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

2023-04-28 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
On 28 April 2023 23:31:02 +0200, Jacob Kroon via fpc-other wrote: >On 4/28/23 23:20, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-other wrote: >> On 4/28/23 23:48, Jacob Kroon wrote: >>> After reading this email that I am replying to here, and revisiting the >>> #fpc logs, the only conclusion I can make is that Niko

Re: [fpc-other] It’s easy to judge

2023-04-27 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
On 2023-04-26 16:58, HSN via fpc-other wrote: . . https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,63036.msg477096.html#msg477096 It’s easy to judge a person you don’t know doing a job you don’t want in a place you have never been to from propaganda of crusading strangers who showed up re

Re: [fpc-other] fpc-other Digest, Vol 150, Issue 8

2023-04-23 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
On 2023-04-24 01:56, Alexander Stohr via fpc-other wrote: Am 2023-04-22 um 19:55 schrieb HSN via fpc-other: Hello Alexander, . . See you in irc or forums I’m done with this mailing list. Thank you for reading and have a nice day :) Have fun wherever you want to go now. . . Please not

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no.

2023-04-22 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
On 23 April 2023 04:16:41 +0200, Steve Litt via fpc-other wrote: Hi wrote, . . >I said nothing about Joanna on #irc or #pascal, so she's basing it on >what I said on fpc-other. You guys have read what I said. Did that >sound like slander and harassment to you? To me it sounded like an >hone

Re: [fpc-other] Rescue #fpc: was fpc-other Digest, Vol 150, Issue 6

2023-04-22 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
On 22 April 2023 01:52:26 +0200, Steve Litt via fpc-other wrote: Hi Steve, . . >This is a step in the right direction. Thank you Joanna. > >Tomas (Hajny), I beg you, please step in and take temporary control of >#fpc until the project itself can take control. If #fpc is le

Re: [fpc-other] #fpc irc channel

2023-04-19 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
On 2023-04-20 01:20, Steve Litt via fpc-other wrote: Tomas Hajny via fpc-other said on Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:33:41 +0200 I can mention ##fpc-alt as well if necessary - what's the associated irc:// URN of this channel? I don't know anything about irc:// urns. What would I use t

Re: [fpc-other] #fpc irc channel

2023-04-19 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
On 2023-04-19 23:33, Steve Litt via fpc-other wrote: Tomas Hajny via fpc-other said on Wed, 19 Apr 2023 23:15:41 +0200 Hello everybody, As promised, I raised the topic of the #fpc irc channel in the FPC core team. The conclusion is that since the FPC core team has no control over this channel

Re: [fpc-other] #fpc irc channel

2023-04-19 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
Hello everybody, As promised, I raised the topic of the #fpc irc channel in the FPC core team. The conclusion is that since the FPC core team has no control over this channel and we don't want to be associated with the moderation style there, we will change the information about this IRC chann

Re: [fpc-other] #fpc irc channel

2023-04-18 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
On 18 April 2023 18:12:49 +0200, James Richters via fpc-other wrote: >I can understand keeping bots off the channel, but it seems like there should >be some easy way to test if you are a bot without annoying real humans. >Why doesn’t she just send them an email or a text message if their >conv

Re: [fpc-other] Hello

2023-04-14 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
On 14 April 2023 18:45:42 +0200, Steve Litt via fpc-other wrote: Hi Steve, >I'm here because of what's going on with the #fpc IRC channel. Welcome! :-) Just FYI - I'll discuss with other members of the core team whether we should keep the reference to #fpc IRC channel on our website - if we

Re: [fpc-other] please try to consider add info about Pandroid to the official Lazarus wiky page

2020-08-10 Thread Tomas Hajny
On 2020-08-10 12:58, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel via fpc-other wrote: Hello, I would like to kindly ask you if you would try to consider adding information about Pandroid for Linux and about Pandroid for WIndows package to The official Lazarus wiki page? There are info about various project, but this

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-devel] Object upgrades

2019-06-16 Thread Tomas Hajny
On 2019-06-17 02:05, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: On 6/16/19 4:41 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-devel wrote: Am 16.06.2019 um 17:43 schrieb wkitt...@windstream.net: Switching to fpc-other, since this is certainly not on-topic on fpc-devel... if gmail can determine that a message coming in from

[fpc-other] NewPascal etc. (Was: Re: [fpc-devel] FastRTTI for FPC)

2018-08-17 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Thu, August 16, 2018 21:26, Maciej Izak wrote: Hello Maciej, Moving the part of discussion not directly related to FPC development to fpc-other... . . > I need to inform that I am not allowed (this is not my decision) to use > fpc-devel / fpc-pascal anymore to inform about progress/announc

[fpc-other] Replying to digest e-mails (Was: Re: fpc-other Digest, Vol 119, Issue 1)

2018-06-05 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Tue, June 5, 2018 22:53, edi...@blaisepascal.eu wrote: Hello Detlef, As suggested within the digest e-mails, it's better to edit the Subject when replying to such an e-mail and thus provide information about the real subject of your response rather than just information that you are subscribe

Re: [fpc-other] OS/2 support and text colors

2017-07-20 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Thu, July 20, 2017 12:00, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi Graeme, > Not strictly FPC related, but I know here are some OS/2 software > developers around - and I have no idea where else to ask. > > I'm working on supporting OS/2 in fpGUI Toolkit and creating OS/2 > themes. Looking at some of the

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-24 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, May 24, 2017 16:51, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2017-05-24 15:30, Tomas Hajny wrote: >> I have my doubts about availability of the GUI component for OS/2, but >> you're welcome to prove me wrong. ;-) > > I haven't personally tried Git under OS/2, but I ha

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-24 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, May 24, 2017 16:03, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2017-05-24 14:38, Luca Olivetti wrote: >> $ LC_ALL=C git gui >> git: 'gui' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. > > I guess you can blame your Linux distro's rubbish package management > requirement policies for that. They probably split

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-24 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, May 24, 2017 15:54, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > On Wed, 24 May 2017, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: > >> > I'm positive that some of you are just clever A.I. bots posing as >> > humans.. that's where your super powers come from. You're not actually >> > humans.. >> Hahaha, you got that rig

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-23 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Tue, May 23, 2017 11:23, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2017-05-22 23:11, nore...@z505.com wrote: Hi Graeme, . . > As with any new applications or technologies, there is always some > learning curve (big or small). There are tons of bad habits ingrained in > SVN users. Those do not translate

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Missing messages

2016-10-30 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Sun, October 30, 2016 19:11, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2016-10-30 17:24, Sven Barth wrote: Responding to fpc-other, because it's off-topic. >> Same here... I don't miss any messages, i.e. it isn't a general problem (which obviously doesn't imply that there is no problem). > First Laza

Re: [fpc-other] helpful information

2016-08-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
forged apparently). In any case, you should better ignore it. Thanks for your understanding Tomas Hajny, one of the fpc-other mailing list moderators ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other

Re: [fpc-other] Networking problem from Linux virtual machine hosting Lazarus

2016-02-27 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Sat, February 27, 2016 22:36, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Bo Berglund wrote: >> I hope this might be acceptable to ask here even if it is FPC and >> Lazarus off topic No problem on this list. . . >> VMWare virtual adapter for vnet8 on main PC: >> IP=192.168.80.1 Mask=255.255.255.0 >>

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Looking for JavaScript component on FPC

2015-04-03 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Fri, April 3, 2015 13:05, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2015-04-03 10:39, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Moving the discussion about advantages out of fpc-pascal elsewhere to avoid bothering others... :/ >> you just change one option -Fu/GUI/LCL to 2: -Fu/GUI -NLCL >> I don't see much added value

Re: [fpc-other] (OS/2 & eCS) - Free Pascal problem.

2015-03-23 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Mon, March 23, 2015 02:06, John H. Lindsay wrote: Hi John, > I'm looking for any help getting Free Pascal into usable shape on OS/2 > and eCS; I'm running eCS v. 2.2 B2. The basic problems are that I can't > get a big enough command-line window to show the fp character-mode > IDE window to

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-devel] OS/2 and DLLs

2014-12-18 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Thu, December 18, 2014 23:09, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Noting somebody's earlier comment about the lack of DLL support being > due to a linker limitation, I think this is unfortunate since when OS/2 > came out the fact that the binary formats were well-documented and > supported by at least t

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-devel] OS/2 and DLLs

2014-12-18 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Thu, December 18, 2014 21:54, Tomas Hajny wrote: > On Thu, December 18, 2014 19:49, Ralf Quint wrote: >> On 12/17/2014 2:56 PM, mark diener wrote: >>> Ralf, I am not goint to tell you to do anything, but gently suggest >>> that you chill out. >> Well, how abou

Re: [fpc-other] disk "glasses"

2014-08-13 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, August 13, 2014 11:35, duilio foschi wrote: . . > In a room, only the few people who wear the magic glasses can see > data inside a box. > > The rest (who have no magic glasses) only see the box. > > Brought to IT, only applications that use product X will "see" disk Y > (and be able to

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Announcing PUMA Repository (Ralf Quint)

2013-12-16 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Mon, December 16, 2013 09:20, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Tomas Hajny wrote: >> . >> . >> Sorry, but I believe that you should indeed check the respective RFCs >> first (and possibly also search some information about what mail servers >> may do when receivin

[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Announcing PUMA Repository (Ralf Quint)

2013-12-15 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Mon, December 16, 2013 00:38, waldo kitty wrote: > On 12/15/2013 3:06 PM, Johannes W. Dietrich wrote: . . >> Apple Mail doesn't seem to be the only software that doesn't know what >> to do >> with this type of encoded data. The problem seem to affect the list >> processor, >> too. See >> http:

[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Problems reading some of the messages from this mailing list

2013-09-23 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Mon, September 23, 2013 15:06, Guillermo Martínez wrote: > > From: "Tomas Hajny" Switching to fpc-other, since this is really off-topic in fpc-pascal... >> That should not be an issue by itself. The more likely reason is >> probably use of 8-bit message (utf-8)

[fpc-other] Finding stuff on wiki (Was: Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: JVM backend and language restrictions)

2013-07-12 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Thu, July 11, 2013 23:44, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2013-07-11 20:20, Florian Klaempfl wrote: >> >> Is it so hard to google "fpc jvm language limitations" ? > > > Yes, especially if your internet has been down for 3/4 of the day [2 > days in a row]. Admittedly, finding stuff on wiki is diff

[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Console Encoding in Windows (Local VS. UTF8)

2013-07-11 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Thu, July 11, 2013 13:23, Lukasz Sokol wrote: > On 10/07/2013 13:38, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi *, Moving here (from fpc-pascal), since this discussion became off-topic. . . >> And is so since Win95. Just amazing that Windows Console is so far >> behind other platforms - it's rather ridic

Re: [fpc-other] What does Embarcadero spend there time on

2013-03-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Fri, March 8, 2013 17:04, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > >> Also, there as no specific person I targeted in >> fpc-devel. Almost all posts lately contain about 95% quoted text! How >> does a moderator fail to see this? > > I really don't want to prolong this and perhaps up

Re: [fpc-other] Source code of Adobe Photoshop 1 published

2013-02-15 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Fri, February 15, 2013 08:32, Alexander Stohr wrote: > Am 2013-02-14 18:42, schrieb Sven Barth: >> Maybe we can try it once m68k support is good enough again and Mac OS >> support has been revived and implemented for m68k ;) > i think a port to the MS/IBM/Intel-PC platform would have been done >

Re: [fpc-other] Re: Missing captcha image signup page Free Pascal Bug Tracker

2013-01-02 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, January 2, 2013 10:59, Peter-Jan Roes wrote: Hi Peter-Jan, > I would like to file a few bug reports possibly along with some > patches. Just to be sure that I understand the correct procedure to > file a bug: > > * Should I file a report at http://bugs.freepascal.org/signup_page.php? > *

Re: [fpc-other] Re: fpc-other Digest, Vol 62, Issue 1

2012-10-06 Thread Tomas Hajny
On 6 Oct 12, at 17:12, Giuliano Colla wrote: > Cephas Atheos ha scritto: > [..] > > > > I knew that I wasn't going to convince anyone who wasn't willing to give > > new technology a fair go! But we do need to at least be fair with our > > evaluation of technology, not just go with what we know and

[fpc-other] Re: Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Tomas Hajny
Hi Pete, Alright, here we go. Sorry, you'll realize soon that I can write longer e-mails than you although or maybe because English is not my native language... ;-) Note that all comments below (listed in completely random order) express my purely personal view (including my own impressions fr

Re: [fpc-other] Re: inf files and textmode IDE (fwd)

2010-09-06 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Mon, September 6, 2010 19:14, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 6 September 2010 17:58, Tomas Hajny wrote: >> >> Neither Lazarus IDE nor MSEide are available under OS/2 and I don't >> expect >> that to change any time soon. So if I use an IDE (rather than a >>

Re: [fpc-other] Re: inf files and textmode IDE (fwd)

2010-09-06 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Mon, September 6, 2010 17:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 6 September 2010 15:36, Marco van de Voort wrote: . . >> I assume the inf stuff is easily fixable if sb could be bothered, but >> the >> problem is also a bit that the whole helpsystem is too simplistic. > > Like I said, I don't mind

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] DocView and FPC documentation release

2010-08-27 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Thu, August 26, 2010 19:09, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 26 August 2010 18:47, Tomas Hajny wrote: >> Any idea why is your Win32 binary 100 kB (12%) larger than the one I >> compiled two days ago from your fpGui7.0 sources available in >> SourceForge? >> I assume y

[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] DocView and FPC documentation release

2010-08-26 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Thu, August 26, 2010 17:55, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi Graeme, > I am pleased to announce that fpGUI's DocView is available for download in > a convenient binary executable from fpGUI's SourceForge project page. See > the URL below. . . Thanks! Any idea why is your Win32 binary 100 kB (1

Re: [fpc-other] Proper way to fix...

2010-04-03 Thread Tomas Hajny
On 3 Apr 10, at 14:24, Kendall Sears wrote: > What it the proper procedure for providing typo and misspelling fixes > for the rtl documents and such? There is a dedicated category for documentation in the FPC bug tracker at http://bugs.freepascal.org - you can report typos there, or even attach

[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] OS/2 INF help support

2009-09-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Tue, September 8, 2009 20:19, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Vincent Snijders said: >> Marco van de Voort schreef: >> > In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said: Replying via fpc-other, because it became rather off-topic in fpc-pascal now. >> &g

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, April 8, 2009 16:22, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Florian Klaempfl > wrote: . . > platforms as well. So far they are going a great job. BTW: I > understand FPC was Windows only in the beginning. ;-) . . No, DOS. ;-) Tomas __

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, April 8, 2009 12:33, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Tomas Hajny wrote: . . >> I wouldn't be able to contribute any longer, because no (usable) Git >> client for OS/2 / eCS exists at the moment as far as I know. > > Ignoring

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, April 8, 2009 11:58, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Tomas Hajny wrote: >>> >> >> In this context, any editor which doesn't use LF by default (e.g. for >> new >> files) is not an option unless you require Unix users to

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, April 8, 2009 12:07, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Tomas Hajny wrote: >> >> I certainly don't want to discuss usefulness of git to individual users >> or >> projects, but it doesn't seem to be very fit to widely multi-pl

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Tue, April 7, 2009 19:55, ik wrote: . . > And there are even more features, but the question is if it good for all > projects. I don't know the answer, I only know that I moved to git in my > last new projects, and it helped me a lot when I was in a need to figure > out > when I destroy someth

Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

2009-04-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, April 8, 2009 10:30, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Florian Klaempfl > wrote: >> >> I know, but I don't want some crappy algorithm to guess if linefeed >> conversion is needed or not, this feels so cvs like *g* > > In that case, all you would need is an editor t

Re: [fpc-other] Re:Pascal Showcase Project/Education

2008-12-11 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Thu, December 11, 2008 10:37, Michael Fuchs wrote: > Mark J. Wood schrieb: >> It would be good if there was a version of >> an ObjectPascal that was packaged to meet that need, as you say. I often >> teach in TP, but it's such a dinosaur. It would be good to have a >> bridging step. > > But if y

Re: [fpc-other] asm ... end;

2008-04-16 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, April 16, 2008 20:00, Alain Michaud wrote: > Hi, > >here is a simple stupid question for experienced programmers: > > When using the inline assembler instructions (asm), one can chose the > "intel" or "ATT" syntax. Which one is the best, more convenient? Trying to focus on objective fa

Re: [fpc-other] rebuild FreePascal in FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Tomas Hajny
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm newbie in freepascal lists and in Freepascal Unix, and if this > question > doesn't make sense for this list, please ignore! I believe that fpc-pascal would be the best choice (this one is for discussions only partly related to FPC). > I downloaded files fpc.zip