[fpc-devel] FPC 2.3.1 seems a mixed mess with Unicode support

[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> So D2009 is revolution, not evolution, and NOT backwards compatible. The
> question if FPC should do the same. And if so, when.

IMHO Never in the default modes, only in a new delphi2009 or similar
mode, if/when someone needs it. I use Delphi mode a lot to have the
same code compilable with Delphi 7 to get smaller executables in
Windows and I wouldn't be happy if standard Delphi mode changes to
Delphi 2009 incompatible stuff.

We can't change our codebases everytime Embarcadero decides to break
compatibility and for me they are too backwards technologically now to
claim we need to follow them. Ideally there should be a standard to
guide Pascal language development, so that this kind of stuff doesn't
happen (evolution in different paths).

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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho