Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-19 Thread vfclists .
On 18 July 2013 14:46, Paulo Costa paco.mail.telepac...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/07/2013 14:31, Kenneth Cochran wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Reimar Grabowski reimg...@web.de mailto:reimg...@web.de wrote: On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:17:29 +0200 Reinier Olislagers

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-18 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:17:29 +0200 Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote: Regardless, I don't think prolonging this thread is very useful. +1 R. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-18 Thread Kenneth Cochran
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Reimar Grabowski reimg...@web.de wrote: On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:17:29 +0200 Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote: Regardless, I don't think prolonging this thread is very useful. +1 I invoke Godwin's law. You're all a bunch of Hilter lovin'

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-18 Thread Paulo Costa
On 18/07/2013 14:31, Kenneth Cochran wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Reimar Grabowski reimg...@web.de mailto:reimg...@web.de wrote: On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:17:29 +0200 Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com mailto:reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote: Regardless,

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-17 Thread Michael Schnell
On 07/16/2013 11:58 AM, Henry Vermaak wrote: They're just paying you back in kind :) Please note that I died not mean experts ironically in any way. I meant: true experts being funny by exaggerating. Sorry for maybe being unclear. -Michael -- ___

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 16/07/2013 18:18, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:23:10PM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16-7-2013 11:53, Henry Vermaak wrote: Ranting from a position of ignorance seriously dilutes your credibility in my book. I'm just saying the rants may be justified if mysql

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-17 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:49:48AM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16/07/2013 18:18, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:23:10PM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16-7-2013 11:53, Henry Vermaak wrote: Ranting from a position of ignorance seriously dilutes your credibility

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-17 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 17/07/2013 11:03, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:49:48AM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16/07/2013 18:18, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:23:10PM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16-7-2013 11:53, Henry Vermaak wrote: Ranting from a position of

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 15-7-2013 18:40, Ludo Brands wrote: On 07/15/2013 05:53 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Need other default (mis)behaviors for MySQL? -insert 123test in an integer field: no error, it inserts 123 -insert 123test in a datetime field: no error, it inserts -00-00 00:00:00 -insert 123 in a

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Reinier Olislagers wrote: It's not a bug, it's a feature: MySQL accepts data other DBs wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole ;) (Don't ask about it proceeding and mangling that data - that's beside the point ;) ) If it really is so bad, why have so many developers- in particularly web

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Reinier Olislagers wrote: It's not a bug, it's a feature: MySQL accepts data other DBs wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole ;) (Don't ask about it proceeding and mangling that data - that's beside the point ;) ) If it really is so bad, why have

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Chavoux Luyt
Hi Mark On 16 July 2013 09:47, lazarus-requ...@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org wrote: Send Lazarus mailing list submissions to lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org From: Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk snip If it really is so bad, why have so many developers- in

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 16-7-2013 10:59, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Reinier Olislagers wrote: It's not a bug, it's a feature: MySQL accepts data other DBs wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole ;) (Don't ask about it proceeding and mangling that data - that's beside the

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:33:45AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Reinier Olislagers wrote: It's not a bug, it's a feature: MySQL accepts data other DBs wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole ;) (Don't ask about it proceeding and mangling that data - that's beside the point ;) ) If it

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 16-7-2013 11:17, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:33:45AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: If it really is so bad, why have so many developers- in particularly web developers- clasped it to their bosom? Probably not, no, given that it's used by wikipedia, google, twitter,

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Schnell
On 07/16/2013 11:17 AM, Henry Vermaak wrote: Probably not, no, given that it's used by ... I seem to find out that this discussion is about experts making fun on each other, just wasting some bandwidth :-) . -Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Reinier Olislagers wrote: There's lots of whacky code out there that still is used in production, and patched endlessly whenever the next error pops up. Doesn't mean it's a good idea to go down that path. That said, I agree about the configuring+ranting part, but I'm not sure to what level of

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Michael Schnell wrote: On 07/16/2013 11:17 AM, Henry Vermaak wrote: Probably not, no, given that it's used by ... I seem to find out that this discussion is about experts making fun on each other, just wasting some bandwidth :-) . That's the best joke I've heard in

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:22:44AM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16-7-2013 11:17, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:33:45AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: If it really is so bad, why have so many developers- in particularly web developers- clasped it to their bosom?

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:28:38AM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote: On 07/16/2013 11:17 AM, Henry Vermaak wrote: Probably not, no, given that it's used by ... I seem to find out that this discussion is about experts making fun on each other, just wasting some bandwidth :-) . They're just

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Chavoux Luyt
Hi Henry On 16 July 2013 10:28, lazarus-requ...@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org wrote: From: Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com snip If it really is so bad, why have so many developers- in particularly web developers- clasped it to their bosom? Probably not, no, given that it's used by

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 16-7-2013 11:53, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:22:44AM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16-7-2013 11:17, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:33:45AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: If it really is so bad, why have so many developers- in particularly web

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:23:10PM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16-7-2013 11:53, Henry Vermaak wrote: Ranting from a position of ignorance seriously dilutes your credibility in my book. I'm just saying the rants may be justified if mysql cannot be configured to follow the RDBMS

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:23:10PM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16-7-2013 11:53, Henry Vermaak wrote: Ranting from a position of ignorance seriously dilutes your credibility in my book. I'm just saying the rants may be justified if mysql cannot be configured to

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-16 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 16 Jul 2013 20:39, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Henry Vermaak wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:23:10PM +0200, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 16-7-2013 11:53, Henry Vermaak wrote: Ranting from a position of ignorance seriously dilutes your credibility in my

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Michael Schnell
On 07/13/2013 03:52 PM, leledumbo wrote: The whole JEDI sucks, dependencies hell everywhere and IS TIED TO WINDOWS! ... It's at least five years ago when I was dealing with the Jedi community. I remember that at that time they have been tpersuing compatibility with FPC/Lazarus at least in

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Michael Schnell
On 07/13/2013 04:01 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: - many turbopower components work. But unfortunately this does not include AsyncPro, while a decent, comfortable, unified, OS-independent way to handle data streams form/to Serial Ports and TCP/IP sockets (i.e. using blocked I/O in hidden

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Schnell wrote: On 07/13/2013 04:01 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: - VST is in Lazarus-CCR, but an older v4 version. VST porting is hindered by not accepting changes (like a sane IFDEF system) upstream, which makes every port an one off change. As I am interested in this and did some

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-13 15:08, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: but didn't want to tell him bluntly that his understanding was outdated. Bluntly is the best way to say something. ;-) Regards, G. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-13 15:06, reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote: The fact that they're connecting to the horror that is MySQL says enough Indeed! More people should be introduced [and educated] to the much better open source database servers out there, like Firebird and PostgreSQL. Regards, G.

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread leledumbo
.nabble.com/Lazarus-Lazarus-Jedi-etc-tp4032338p4032397.html Sent from the Free Pascal - Lazarus mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
leledumbo wrote: Indeed! More people should be introduced [and educated] to the much better open source database servers out there, like Firebird and PostgreSQL. Or if they insist on using MySQL (compatible alternative): MariaDB The OP's backend was half constructed. There was also a

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-15 13:43, leledumbo wrote: Or if they insist on using MySQL (compatible alternative): MariaDB Nope, still not! I'll not touch MySQL, MariaDB or anything based on those with a 10 foot pole! If you value your data, stay away from those two. Another developer enlightened me on how bad

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-15 14:38, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: People using MySQL should have their developers license revoked :) I like that! :) Regards, G. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 02:49:06PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2013-07-15 13:43, leledumbo wrote: Or if they insist on using MySQL (compatible alternative): MariaDB Nope, still not! I'll not touch MySQL, MariaDB or anything based on those with a 10 foot pole! If you value your

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 02:49:06PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2013-07-15 13:43, leledumbo wrote: Or if they insist on using MySQL (compatible alternative): MariaDB Nope, still not! I'll not touch MySQL, MariaDB or anything based on those

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-15 15:06, Henry Vermaak wrote: Could you explain why the above is bad for those of us that aren't DB experts? To my untrained eye it looks fairly plausible, so I'm obviously missing something. I never inserted data into column C, so MySQL decided on its own that it should

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:44:42PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2013-07-15 15:06, Henry Vermaak wrote: Could you explain why the above is bad for those of us that aren't DB experts? To my untrained eye it looks fairly plausible, so I'm

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Henry Vermaak wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:37:35PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Henry Vermaak wrote: Could you explain why the above is bad for those of us that aren't DB experts? To my untrained eye it looks fairly plausible, so I'm

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-15 16:40, Henry Vermaak wrote: If you want an INSERT statement to generate an error unless you explicitly specify values for all columns that do not have a default value, you should use strict mode. And G*d only knows why they have such modes in the first place! You would think

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-15 16:42, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I seem to remember something about table columns having default values in the definition, so perhaps column C defaults to 0? It should only do that when specifically instructed. Exactly... SQL's data definition language has specific support

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:53:25PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: The case sensitivity in the table names is also crazy, especially if the database gets moved. I had to modify quite a lot of SQL statements because of that. For MySQL support I had to look up the table name (as MySQL has it),

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Ludo Brands
On 07/15/2013 05:53 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2013-07-15 16:40, Henry Vermaak wrote: If you want an INSERT statement to generate an error unless you explicitly specify values for all columns that do not have a default value, you should use strict mode. And G*d only knows why they

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:44:42PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2013-07-15 15:06, Henry Vermaak wrote: Could you explain why the above is bad for those of us that aren't DB experts? To my untrained eye it looks fairly plausible, so I'm obviously missing something. I never inserted

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:37:35PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Henry Vermaak wrote: Could you explain why the above is bad for those of us that aren't DB experts? To my untrained eye it looks fairly plausible, so I'm obviously missing something. Simple. The

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Then depending on which filesystem your MySQL database is, it affectsthe case sensitivity Definitely a problem. However even on something like PostgreSQL there can be case-sensitivity issues with e.g. usernames/roles. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 15/07/13 15:12, En/na Mark Morgan Lloyd ha escrit: There was also a requirement to interface to PLCs etc. (using, I'm told, the nodave library) For the record, libnodave works wonderfully with fpc. Bye -- Luca Olivetti Wetron Automation Technology http://www.wetron.es Tel. +34 935883004

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-15 17:40, Ludo Brands wrote: Throw anything at it and MySQL will swallow. Your data are in good hands ;) OK, I changed my mind about MySQL I'll not touch it with a 50 foot pole! That database server (I cringed calling it that) is an absolute joke. Please do all developers a

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-15 Thread Flávio Etrusco
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Ludo Brands ludo.bra...@free.fr wrote: Need other default (mis)behaviors for MySQL? -insert 123test in an integer field: no error, it inserts 123 -insert 123test in a datetime field: no error, it inserts -00-00 00:00:00 -insert 123 in a datetime field: no

[Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Elsewhere, somebody's posted this: But we already own Delphi XE2. My understanding is that Lazarus is still clunky compared with Delf at basic IDE-and-forms stuff; Lazarus doesn't support key familiar libraries that we rely on to slap together the basic elements (Jedi, Virtual Treeview, cough

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-13 Thread leledumbo
to many DBMS, MySQL is one of them. -- View this message in context: http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/Lazarus-Lazarus-Jedi-etc-tp4032338p4032339.html Sent from the Free Pascal - Lazarus mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-13 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 12:38:39PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Elsewhere, somebody's posted this: But we already own Delphi XE2. My understanding is that Lazarus is still clunky compared with Delf at basic IDE-and-forms stuff; Lazarus doesn't support key familiar libraries that we rely

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Elsewhere, somebody's posted this: But we already own Delphi XE2. My understanding is that Lazarus is still clunky compared with Delf at basic IDE-and-forms stuff; Lazarus doesn't support key familiar libraries that we rely on to slap together

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-13 Thread reinierolislagers
On 13-7-2013 2:38, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Elsewhere, somebody's posted this: But we already own Delphi XE2. My understanding is that Lazarus is still clunky compared with Delf at basic IDE-and-forms stuff; Lazarus doesn't support key familiar libraries that we rely on to slap together the

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
leledumbo wrote: The whole JEDI sucks, dependencies hell everywhere and IS TIED TO WINDOWS! Some of the components have been converted though. Virtual Treeview is available for Lazarus. Quickreport is not needed because we have LazReport, more over, FastReport is also Lazarus compatible. Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: leledumbo wrote: The whole JEDI sucks, dependencies hell everywhere and IS TIED TO WINDOWS! Some of the components have been converted though. Virtual Treeview is available for Lazarus. Quickreport is not needed because we have LazReport, more

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

2013-07-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Marco van de Voort wrote: With a bit of good will, a lot can be done. But don't try to convince people that don't have a strong motivation (like a desire to be multiplatform). It is usually a waste of time, and it only forces their defenses up. Thanks, list passed on. Knowing the person