[fpc-devel] Alternative parsers

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Op 2010-10-19 07:19, Hans-Peter Diettrich het geskryf:
> 
> So there's left nothing what I could do for FPC.

Welcome to the club of uphill battles. :)


PS:
[this comment applies in general, not necessarily to this specific thread's
feature]
I agree that code clean-up, code restructuring and refactoring are normal
steps in software development (at least this is true in our company
software). Code is a living thing, it evolves over time. So if someone says
you can't implement that feature because code might need to be changed, I
start laughing. If somebody says there is no need for that feature, I start
laughing more - no one person's vision can fulfill everybody's needs. The
whole point of open source software is so that various people can scratch
their own itch, and fulfill their needs.

I guess that doesn't mean Florian or some other core developer must accept
your patch or new features, but that's the beauty of open source software.
Simply fork the project and continue with your own Object Pascal compiler.
Many projects have done that in the past (the latest large project being
OpenOffice, now named LibreOffice), and many times the new forks are more
successful than the old - sometimes new management is all that is needed.

Regards,
  - Graeme -

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