Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/4/2015 2:43 PM, Anthony Walter wrote: Ralph, not to be rude, but you are either not paying attention or being dense. I said: I am not dense, but you seem to go that direction. For one, my name is Ralf not Ralph. Looks like you need to pay attention... 'And one hyper link with on the front

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Anthony Walter
Ralph, not to be rude, but you are either not paying attention or being dense. I said: 'And one hyper link with on the front page with the words "get Lazarus today" does the same thing.' And it's a wiki you can edit. If you think that one link should either highlight the word today, or want it to

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread DaWorm
Also, please make a ZIP version available for download on Windows. Many corporate firewalls completely block downloading EXE files from non-trusted sites (and getting a site on the trusted list is non-trivial, to say the least). Thanks, Jeff. ___ fpc-

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/4/2015 12:22 PM, Anthony Walter wrote: Ralph, regarding the first point of FPC 3.0, we already discussed it in previous replies. Check those messages to get caught up. My general objection still stands... Regarding the automatic download, I'm not sure where you are talking about. As soon

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Anthony Walter
Ralph, regarding the first point of FPC 3.0, we already discussed it in previous replies. Check those messages to get caught up. Regarding the automatic download, I'm not sure where you are talking about. The big DOWNLOAD NOW button with the cloud icon initiates a download, while also redirecting

Re: [fpc-pascal] A Delphi "class constructor" does not compile in FPC

2015-02-04 Thread silvioprog
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Sven Barth wrote: > On 04.02.2015 19:58, silvioprog wrote: > [...] > Bug? >> > > Yes. Please report. Done: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=27405. Thank you! -- Silvio Clécio My public projects - github.com/silvioprog

Re: [fpc-pascal] A Delphi "class constructor" does not compile in FPC

2015-02-04 Thread Sven Barth
On 04.02.2015 19:58, silvioprog wrote: Hello, First, please test the code below in Delphi and after in FPC: TTest = class public class constructor Create; constructor Create; virtual; end; ... constructor TTest.Create; begin end; class constructor TTest.Create; begin end; O

[fpc-pascal] A Delphi "class constructor" does not compile in FPC

2015-02-04 Thread silvioprog
Hello, First, please test the code below in Delphi and after in FPC: TTest = class public class constructor Create; constructor Create; virtual; end; ... constructor TTest.Create; begin end; class constructor TTest.Create; begin end; OK, it will compile fine. Now test the code bel

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/4/2015 3:20 AM, Anthony Walter wrote: Okay, I'll work on new builds ASAP which include the revision numbers from inside Lazarus as well as clearly labeled revision text files placed in the FPC and Lazarus folders. These files will contain the branch name and SVN revision number. I've mod

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Anthony Walter
Marcos, I build the Bare Game website engine using asp classic with javascript on the server. I am a huge javascript fan, and I've used asp classic since 1998. But this new site is built on a dead simple C# engine basic on a POCO library which implements the bare minimum IHttpHandler interface. Us

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Daniel Franzini
Quick fix: in the download page, the link to the InnoSetup website is wrong. Should be: http://www.getlazarus.org/setup/www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Daniel Franzini wrote: > Congratulations for such initiative. Very nice. I hope this helps > Lazarus/FPC to get m

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Daniel Franzini
Congratulations for such initiative. Very nice. I hope this helps Lazarus/FPC to get more visibility. Just one point: I'd strongly recommend you provide a build with stable/production versions of Lazarus and FreePascal. They are the best the Lazarus/FPC team can offer and they have production qual

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Anthony Walter wrote: > I am please to announce the launch of a new initiative to promote Free > Pascal and Lazarus. The hub of this initiative is http://www.getlazarus.org > > The get Lazarus initiative aims to an reintroduce Lazarus to the software > development w

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Anthony Walter
Okay, I'll work on new builds ASAP which include the revision numbers from inside Lazarus as well as clearly labeled revision text files placed in the FPC and Lazarus folders. These files will contain the branch name and SVN revision number. I've modified the line you mentioned to read "To get the

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 04 Feb 2015, at 11:37, Anthony Walter wrote: Jonas, I'll re-add the svn revision number in my next round of builds wich will follow shortly. I was rebuilding all OS bundles from the same revision and copied them to my test systems. Unfortunately I deleted all the svn tracking files bef

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Anthony Walter
Jonas, I'll re-add the svn revision number in my next round of builds wich will follow shortly. I was rebuilding all OS bundles from the same revision and copied them to my test systems. Unfortunately I deleted all the svn tracking files before I did my first copy, which removes maybe 100s of megab

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Anthony Walter
Jonas, I hope this helps. I try to say Test versions of Free Pascal 3.0 all over the place on the website. The installers all say test version of Free Pascal 3.0. The Windows Installer says this in really big bold words up top when you launch the setup.exe. All the icons on the end users systems s

Re: [fpc-pascal] SDL 2.xx

2015-02-04 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/03/2015 04:20 PM, Brian wrote: Threading SDL 2.03 is not particularly difficult if you observe the rules Nonetheless you need to take a lot of care when implementing any communication between multiple "Windows". -Michael ___ fpc-pascal mailli

Re: [fpc-pascal] why fpc do not use a known return function value

2015-02-04 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/03/2015 02:27 PM, Sven Barth wrote: Afterall globals are considered volatile... ... hence a Pascal compiler creating other code would be erroneous. It might be a good idea to introduce a keyword such as "nonvolatile" to allow for exactly such optimizations. -Michael __

Re: [fpc-pascal] why fpc do not use a known return function value

2015-02-04 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/03/2015 11:33 AM, misu kun wrote: i mean even if you initilize c with a const value. i enabled {$optimization constprop} but nothing changed ! (E.g.) another thread could modify on the fly c without the "function test" knowing. Hence it needs to reload c with every usage. In C this is m

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 04/02/15 06:00, Anthony Walter wrote: > The get Lazarus initiative aims to an reintroduce Lazarus to the > software development world. To aide in this endeavor we've created our > own special Lazarus bundles for Windows, Mac, and Linux with test > versions of Free Pascal 3.0 Lazarus 1.4. Thank