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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Oct 19, 2024 at 4:26:51 PM, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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Which IMHO, means another (potentially drastic) downside.<br><br>If it would be possible and would be done, you end up with 2<br>incompatible products. That would mean you split the community into 2<br>groups, each group smaller than the current. Effectively immediately<br>downsizing the amount of users (in each group).<br>Even if you gain 20% new users (and I find that more than optimistic, I<br>would guess more like 5% tops, if we are lucky), and then split unevenly<br>60/40 => the larger of the 2 new communities will be at 70% of the<br>current size.<br>
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this is a very good point. The splitting of the RTL is a deal breaker too. Unless it was possible to turn it on and off with a compiler directive and make very minimal code changes it’s off the table.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div> Ryan Joseph</div></div><br>
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