[fpc-devel] OS/2 and DLLs

[mark diener]

Thanks for the use case Bernd, a fully functional
population of true legacy users with working systems
of OS/2 in 2014.  That is a surprise.

Ralf,  I am not goint to tell you to do anything, but gently suggest that
you chill out.



On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Bernd Oppolzer <bernd.oppolzer at t-online.de>
wrote:
>
> Am 17.12.2014 22:37, schrieb Ralf Quint:
>
>> On 12/17/2014 12:38 PM, rpzrpzrpz at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Ralf, Such passion for obsolescence...
>>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>>
>>> What is the use case other than a hobby and pride for OS/2 support?
>>>
>> What ever the user wants to do! Who are you to tell other people what is
>> a valid use case or not?!?
>>
>> And just for your information, OS/2 (now under the name eComStation) is
>> still a commercially available OS (http://www.ecomstation.com/).
>>
>>
> I am a professional working developer,
> and I am still using two OS/2 development machines
> to build software, most of the time written in ANSI C,
> which is targetted in the end to other platforms like
> Unixes or z/OS mainframe, but OS/2 still is the development
> platform I like most. And I use it almost every day. The IBM
> compilers and debuggers etc. are superb, I also use (old versions of)
> Oracle and DB2 on this platform and many own - portable - libraries
> for XML processing, for example, and other interesting tasks.
>
> I would like to help Tomas in his efforts, but at the moment
> I have no time .. maybe next year.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Bernd
>
>
>  But in your case, as good old Mr. Thomas Gray said, "Where ignorance is
>> bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>> ---
>> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
>> http://www.avast.com
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> fpc-devel maillist  -  fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org
>> http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> fpc-devel maillist  -  fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org
> http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freepascal.org/pipermail/fpc-devel/attachments/20141217/e5345fa2/attachment.html>