[fpc-devel] Alternative parsers
Florian Klaempfl
florian at freepascal.org
Tue Oct 19 10:31:26 CEST 2010
Am 19.10.2010 10:20, schrieb Sven Barth:
> Am 19.10.2010 10:12, schrieb Florian Klaempfl:
>> Am 19.10.2010 09:32, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
>>> Op 2010-10-19 08:59, Paul Ishenin het geskryf:
>>>>
>>>> The most wanted feature is "Unicode string support".
>>>
>>> What Hans-Peter meant is that even if he does implement Unicode String
>>> support, that would require changes in the compiler. Florian apparently
>>> doesn't like any changes to the compiler,
>>
>> When did I say this? What I said was: I won't merge changes into trunk
>> which implement support for alternative parsers (this is the topic of
>> this thread!) because nobody could explain me yet the use of alternative
>> parsers for FPC users. So I would spend time in something with no gain
>> for users resulting in even less time for other problems. Maybe somebody
>> else will merge it, but he takes the burden to fix any regressions and
>> maintain the changed code.
>>
>
> To be honest (as someone who hasn't yet posted to this topic): You
> sounded very much like "we don't want to merge this" with "we" as in
> "the core devs".
When did I write "we"? I think my initial statement was pretty clear:
http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-devel/2010-October/022335.html
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