Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler

2005-03-20 Thread Alexandre Rocha Lima e Marcondes
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:12:56 +0100 Philipp Haller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So here it goes... A colleague at the research center where I work as a grad student has worked the past 1-2 years on a Object Pascal front end (parser + semantic analyzer) for a re-engineering tool. He has been using

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler

2005-03-20 Thread Willi Krenn
Alexandre, Have you asked your colleague if we could use his/her code on our Pascal Compiler code (I think the name should be discussed here on the list)? If this code could be used, could we make a fork on his cvs server or should we try to use another server. If you

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler

2005-03-20 Thread Alexandre Rocha Lima e Marcondes
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:54:51 +0100 Willi Krenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre, Have you asked your colleague if we could use his/her code on our Pascal Compiler code (I think the name should be discussed here on the list)? If this code could be used, could we make a

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler

2005-03-17 Thread Matt
I completely agree that there has to be a Delphi compiler ... Me too, I would love to see this project idea start to get going. ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler - say what?

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Hausladen
Who uses Pascal anymore? I use it on a daily base. Hasn't everyone (that's serious) moved on to C++, Java and/or C#? I also write C# programs. (I leave out Java and C++ in this mail) Are there jobs in Pascal anymore? Yes, there are. But most are not plain Pascal, they are Delphi. Ever

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler

2005-03-16 Thread Alexandre Rocha Lima e Marcondes
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:48:59 +0100 Willibald Krenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! To bring this discussion to an end: We'll neither change the world nor making an impact in the world; We don't know if we'll ever reach our goal or even if we'll create something useful - BUT we do think

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal Compiler Revisited

2005-03-16 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 03/15/05 Grant Hess wrote: Concerning the amount of debate spawned by a simple attempt start this project, I've come to a couple of conclusions. 1) Very few people care about the project 2) Official support will be limited This is at best your misinformed opinion. If by 'official

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler - say what?

2005-03-16 Thread David Champion
Edward Wilson wrote: Why? Who uses Pascal anymore? I also use Delphi (commercially $$$) on a daily basis and C#. But I choose the best language/framework for the job. With the latest IDE, Delphi2005, I can work in native Delphi.win32, C# and Delphi.net in the same project group. Its a

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler

2005-03-16 Thread Kelly Leahy
The 'how','what' and 'when' parts still need to be decided (some probably next week); Of course we won't do this on the mono-devel list, but we'll report back here. I would like to paritcipate on this project, on my spare time also ... Me too. Please include me in future

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler

2005-03-16 Thread Jambunathan K
Willi Good luck. Have tons of fun. Share the fun when done. Regards, Jambunathan K. On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:48:59 +0100, Willibald Krenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! To bring this discussion to an end: We'll neither change the world nor making an impact in the world; We don't know if

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler - say what?

2005-03-16 Thread Edward Wilson
I agree with you; however, I am less confident that in 5-10 years Pascal will still be what it is today. I would wager that Pascal is slowly loosing mindshare. - e --- David Champion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward Wilson wrote: Why? Who uses Pascal anymore? I also use Delphi

RE: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-15 Thread Massimiliano Mantione
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 00:14, marc hoffman wrote: It would be great if you are offering to release the source of this Chrome compiler under an open source compatible license. Not likely to happen as long as some of us have to pay for rent and food ;) Marc, there will always be

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-15 Thread David Champion
Willibald Krenn wrote: Hi! Would there be interest in adding a Delphi compatible compiler to Mono? Somehow I'd like to see support for my pet language.. :-) Any thoughts? Willi ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-15 Thread Willibald Krenn
Marc, Thanks very much for your detailed answer. Why would it be in the Mono cvs? Chrome is a closed-source commercial product, it's not open source. I made that clear in my original post. Of course you made that clear - perhaps I did not explain what /I/ meant clearly enough: I somewhat missed a

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal Compiler Thoughts

2005-03-15 Thread Rodrigo B. de Oliveira
Have you considered adopting boo[1] as the compiler infrastructure? I'd love to cooperate with you and make sure the boo compiler infrastructure can accommodate the needs of object pascal. [1] http://boo.codehaus.org/ On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:42:11 -0800, Grant Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-14 Thread marc hoffman
Grant, et al. A would love to see an Object Pascal (i.e. Delphi compatible) compiler for Mono. While not part of the Mono project per se, you might want to take a look at Chrome, the Object Pascal compiler for .NET and Mono that we currently are working on at RemObjects Software. The

RE: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-14 Thread marc hoffman
Grant, Some of us have difficulty in trusting commercial products to provide trustable solutions for software development. Yeah well... It would be great if you are offering to release the source of this Chrome compiler under an open source compatible license. Not likely to happen

RE: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-14 Thread marc hoffman
Willibald, I did not know that Chrome is so closely bundeled with Mono - but OTOH why doesn't mono ship with Chrome For one thing, Chrome isn't released, just yet ;). if it is considered to be the standard object pascal compiler for Mono? Or did I miss something here? Is there/Will

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-14 Thread Grant Hess
Todd Berman wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 03:08 +0100, Willibald Krenn wrote: In short, I'm still willing to take the task of doing some open source Delphi/Chrome/whatever compiler, but only if we have backing of Miguel. Otherwise this would be wasted time, as it seems that 'alia iacta erat'

RE: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-14 Thread marc hoffman
Willibald, But you have the command line preview... Yes. Why is it not in mono cvs, if it's the standard Pascal compiler? Everything's there, except some Pascal compiler. Why would it be in the Mono cvs? Chrome is a closed-source commercial product, it's not open source. I made that

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-14 Thread Francisco T. Martinez
Willibald Krenn wrote: How do you guys manage to get some work done while at the same time hanging around in #mono? I can not do that, so I do not monitor #mono. Willi I think that it can only go further down from here! Frankly folks, I see the beauty of an Open Source compiler for managed

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-14 Thread Willibald Krenn
Francisco T. Martinez schrieb: Willibald Krenn wrote: How do you guys manage to get some work done while at the same time hanging around in #mono? I can not do that, so I do not monitor #mono. Willi I think that it can only go further down from here! Sorry if this sounded harsh (or even worse) -

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-14 Thread Grant Hess
Francisco T. Martinez wrote: I think that it can only go further down from here! Frankly folks, I see the beauty of an Open Source compiler for managed Pascal. However, I fail to see how is that adversarial with the folks form RemObjects. There is plenty of room for all alternatives. Please

RE: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-14 Thread Michael Torrie
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 04:38 +0100, marc hoffman wrote: Let me close by saying that i think and hope that there's room here for open source (Mono) and commercial (Chrome) software to co-exist and support each other for mutual benefit - rather then working against each other. Of course there

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-14 Thread Jambunathan K
Mr. Willibald I am sorry Mr.Willibald. I have demeaned myself by getting in to these flaming wars. My bad . Mr. Hoffman Upload your source code to svn under some Open Source licence and you will see patches flowing in (if you are patient enough). Otherwise I am forced to interpret your calls

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-13 Thread Grant Hess
Greetings, A would love to see an Object Pascal (i.e. Delphi compatible) compiler for Mono. I would be quite willing to work on such a project (in my spare time), but I don't have the documentation to do a decent job of it. It seems to me that the best bet would be to match the language used

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-13 Thread Willibald Krenn
I would be quite willing to work on such a project (in my spare time), Excellent! but I don't have the documentation to do a decent job of it. It seems to me that the best bet would be to match the language used by Borland's products for maximum compatibility. Yes, of course - this goes

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-13 Thread Grant Hess
Other than the fact that I don't know what the Delphi.net extensions to the language spec are, I'd love to begin on this. I've spent almost 10 years working in Delphi (well, I did start with Turbo Pascal 8) ) and would love to see it available in an open platform. Comments follow: Willibald

Re: [Mono-devel-list] Pascal compiler?

2005-03-13 Thread Willibald Krenn
Grant Hess schrieb: Other than the fact that I don't know what the Delphi.net extensions to the language spec are, I'd love to begin on this. I'll dig into this - basically I think foreach is in, attributes of course and new visibility identifiers. Then there are co-classes, namespaces