[fpc-devel] How do I go about volunteering as a "release builder", so that we can get rid of the objectively untrue, misleadingly worded "There is no native compiler available for x86_64 Win64. You have to use a cross-compiler" notice on the FPC website?

[Alexander Grotewohl]

Not to mention the users who pick up FPC and have to port what they've 
previously learned. That information is useful even if the code isn't 
already written.


On 11/4/2018 7:41 AM, wkitty42 at windstream.net wrote:
> On 11/3/18 7:09 PM, Ben Grasset wrote:
>> (The same could be said about the various other wildly outdated bits of
>> information on the overall site and the fact that it gives
>> now-hugely-irrelevant topics like "porting from TP7" such precedence, 
>> but
>> that's a different issue.)
>
> porting from TP/BP 6/7 is still fairly relevant... maybe not in your 
> part of the universe but it is definitely relevant for others... in 
> one development directory here there are well over 500 pas and inc 
> files needing porting... no clue at this time the number of LoC in 
> those files but it is a lot more than those with the porting task 
> really want to know about else it set a daunting task ahead of them...
>
>