[fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Tue Dec 25 18:22:56 CET 2012


In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
> > interest to implement such a CPU... *cough* m68k *cough* ;)
> 
> Agreed. But combinations that don't compile meaningfully (e.g. the 
> compiler targeting IA-64) or at all without at least backported patches 
> (various RTLs including MacOS Classic, Amiga etc.) could IMO usefully be 
> in compiler/attic and rtl/attic. In other words, anything in the main 
> directories should compile and run, and if somebody spots that that is 
> no longer the case then it's a candidate for being fixed.
> 
> Obviously this is a personal opinion. I for one am not trying to hector, 
> badger, buffalo or otherwise irritate the coee team :-)

Doesn't that only inflate SVN backup sizes? Better have some textfile (in
SVN for that matter) that explains a bit more.



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