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

2014-12-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Ralf Quint wrote: On 12/18/2014 2:09 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I presume that the early enthusiasm had largely dissipated by the time IBM started pushing it as a 32-bit OS, with a new binary format etc. OS/2 is 32bit (for the most part) since v2.0, released in 1992 and it became actually

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 about you live what you are preaching? I'd like

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

2014-12-18 Thread Vincent Snijders
2014-12-17 21:38 GMT+01:00 rpzrpz...@gmail.com rpzrpz...@gmail.com: Ralf, Such passion for obsolescence... What is the use case other than a hobby and pride for OS/2 support? Hopefully, FPC core maintainers are not distracted by the legacy support. FPC maintainers don't hesitate to stop

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

2014-12-18 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Tomas Hajny wrote: Switching to fpc-other as a more appropriate space: I believe that although my time available for FPC is quite limited, my activities related to OS/2 target in FPC in the last few years show more than clearly that I want to continue support of this target regardless of the