[fpc-devel] Alternative parsers

[Vincent Snijders]

2010/10/19 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>:
> Op 2010-10-19 09:07, Vincent Snijders het geskryf:
>>
>> Yes, but I doubt this possible fork will be, but feel free to prove me wrong.
>
> Nobody will know, until a fork has been made. As for your opinion that it
> will simply fail is a bit of thumb sucking. Some commercial entity could
> easily fork FPC, throw 20 full times developers at it, have a nice huge
> budget, and take Embarcadero head-on with a cross-platform compiler and
> with 32/64-bit support already done. You still think that would fail?

Given the fact that 20 full time developer work on it, I think they
have a reasonable chance to succeed.

>
> Just look at Qt today - it started with 2 developers that thought they
> could do better than what was currently out there. Mozilla, a fork from
> Netscape - a pretty good success I would think. Eclipse - an idea IBM had,
> thinking it would do better that what Sun offered. Firebird DB (from old
> Interbase), PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server (comes from the same original
> codebase as PostgresSQL did), MS-DOS, MS Office,...  Many, many more such
> success cases exist. All examples of one person/entity thinking they can do
> a better job than the original person/entity.
>

It can be done, but it must be done, to prove it. Just talk won't do it.

Vincent