[fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 17.12.2012 10:36, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> Hi,
> 
> Any FPC developer willing to comment on the status of some of these
> issues (that have been years overdue)?

It narrows basically down to the fact that fpc lacks developers and
contributors, or do I miss something?

> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] MSEide+MSEgui 2.8.4
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:57:15 +0100
> From: John Doe 1 <****>
> To: mseide-msegui-talk at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> On Saturday 15 December 2012 18:19:24 John Doe 2 wrote:
>> On 14/12/12 20:15, John Doe 1 wrote:
>>> This probably is the last version which depends on FPC-FCL.
>>
>> I often feel like doing the same. Hell, sometimes even replacing the
>> RTL. I already have a slimmed down SysUtils and Classes unit in a
>> private branch.
>>
> 
> It seems to me, main target of FPC development today is compatibility to
> the "modern" Delphi language constructs, I don't want to go this
> route.And we need more flexibility, I can't fight days or weeks with
> Michael and Marco for every little change which is not on Lazarus or
> their own benefit.Ouh, and there still is no unicode support for
> resource strings, no official statement how unicode will be implemented
> in RTL, the compiler becomes slower and slower, smart linking MSEide on
> 64 bit Linux is not possible with 2GB ram, still no Delphi-like packages...
> Sad.
> 
> John Doe 1
> 
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