[fpc-devel] Please include gmp.dll in Win32 distribution of FPC 2.6.2 and later

[Alexander Klenin]

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Nikolay Nikolov
<nickysn at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Just to make it clear how these people usually think, I was part of the
> IOI2009 technical committee and I was responsible for setting up the pascal
> environment (fpc & lazarus under ubuntu) to work. In that year, Henadzi
> Karatkevitch from Belarus won the competition and I boasted about it on the
> fpc mailing list, because he wrote his solutions in pascal and his
> achievements are unique in the history of the IOI

I have just returned from Russian stage of students' programming compeition.
Gennadiy Korotkevich is now a student in a Russian university, and he won again:
http://neerc.ifmo.ru/information/standings.html
He has a good chance to win world finals this year.
Sadly, he does not use Pascal any more, since Pascal is banned from students'
championship for a few years already.

> So I'm all for adding a simple dll in the default windows install for
> political reasons, even though it might not seem to be the right thing to do
> to people who aren't involved in competitive programming.
+1

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Alexander S. Klenin