[fpc-devel] Announcement: Free Pascal Compiler Delphi XE PortProject

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Matt Emson wrote:
> On 11/04/2011 12:49, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Skybuck 
>> Flying<skybuck2000 at hotmail.com>  wrote:
>>> This project is about "porting" the Free Pascal Compiler to Delphi XE.
>> I am curious: What is the use for this?
> 
> This is what Mr Flying does - pops up, attempts to do something without 
> really any good reason. He's not been on an FPC list in a while though. 
> I remember when he was trying to reverse engineer 64bit exe files in.. 
> wow.. 2007? He says a lot, listens a little and generates lots of 
> content with little or no sense. He has been accused of trolling before, 
> but the jury is out on this one...

Let's judge him by results. However, I must admit that I'm asking "why" 
as well: why would one want to recompile a portable free compiler with a 
non-portable non-free one?

Now if he'd instead devised a way of bootstrapping FPC using GCC I think 
that everybody would be unreservedly enthusiastic.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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