[fpc-devel] Announcement: Free Pascal Compiler Delphi XEPortProject

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Skybuck Flying schrieb:
> 
>> Anyway if somebody could take a look at all of this and make some 
>> sense of it that would be great/nice, saves me some time and could 
>> clear some confusion (?) ;)
> 
> Before looking at your code, I'd know the role that your project plays 
> at all. Is it only about making the FPC code compilable by Delphi, as 
> the first stage in the FPC bootstrap?
> 
> In this case it would be easier to use an older Delphi commandline 
> compiler, from the time before the Ansi-To-Unicode move, or simply an 
> legacy FPC. You also could try to make the FPC sources compile by gcc - 
> but I'd delay any such attempts to the time, when there doesn't exist 
> any immediately applicable compiler any more.

I think that's very wise advice. I'd also throw in that there's a few 
things in the compiler etc. that I'm interested in looking at, but that 
I'm trying to build up a sound base of experience actually /using/ it 
first. The community has put up with me for six years or so, I still 
consider myself an inexperienced beginner, and I'd be very reluctant to 
make any suggestion that the developers had overlooked something 
significant.

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

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