[fpc-devel] Interface scope incompatibility with Delphi

[Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis]

Στις 10/11/2010 3:01 μμ, ο/η Michael Van Canneyt έγραψε:
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> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Martin Schreiber wrote:
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>> On Wednesday, 10. November 2010 11.24:52 Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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>>>>> Nowhere is the Delphi behaviour guaranteed, not even by Delphi.
>>>>
>>>> Well, I can always argue that FPC tries to clone/mimic Delphi 
>>>> behaviour
>>>> in many ways... it's that little FPC design goal called "delphi
>>>> compatibility". Think of all the poor developers trying to port their
>>>> Delphi code to FPC. ;-)
>>>
>>> Yes, valid and documented code is supported.
>>> This is invalid code which just so happens to work.
>>>
>> FPC could implement, document and guarantee the very useful and 
>> sometimes
>> necessary behaviour maybe?

< SNIP >

> The people who base their business on FPC should maybe realize that 
> relying on hobbyists is a risk. We've long reached the point where the 
> FPC core team is stretched to the limit for the tasks at hand, and 
> you're feeling the consequences of this. No-one denies this, on the
> contrary.
>
> So my advice: get the foundation off the ground. Ensure the future of FPC
> and your own business, if you happen to rely on FPC.

Well, something like that happened with the FirebirdSQL when Interbase 
was released open source.

regards,

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Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis