[fpc-devel] utf-8 package in Free Pascal

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 03.10.2011 15:32, schrieb Alexander Klenin:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 22:40, Florian Klämpfl<florian at freepascal.org>  wrote:
>> Am 03.10.2011 13:23, schrieb Alexander Klenin:
>>>
>>> This way, you can develop much faster, without the need to fight for
>>> your changes,
>>
>> Others call this fighting "review" and consider it as important part to
>> improve software quality.
>
> I'd say there is a continuum between those extremes, and (unfortunately)
> from my point of vew, FPC review is sometimes rather close to the former.

FPC has to fit the need of a lot of users so we must be very carefull 
what we add and what not. Everything we add and which goes into a 
release must be maintained. We cannot easily kill packages if a 
maintainer disappears or if the functionality is already in base units. 
Unicode support is currently under heavy reconstruction so it's not a 
good idea to add new packages for unicode.

>
> Anyway, what I suggest is IMO a good compromise and should satisfy both sides --
> Felipe can continue development of his packages unobstucted,
> while the quality of FPC will not suffer.

That's why I proposed a branch and that's what branches are for.

For example a TString* class for UTF-8 might even go into classes. But 
this needs to be done carefully.