[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?

[Ralf Quint]

On 11/4/2018 4:41 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 (The same could be said about the various other wildly outdated bits of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... 
+1 (at least)

The narrowmindedness of some of the young whippersnappers never ceases 
to amaze me (and not in a good way :-( ).

Having info that is outdated (as subsequent developments have 
improved/replaced it) is one thing, but what one might consider "hugely 
irrelevant" is a completely different issue and "highly" depended on 
subjective needs and purposes...

Ralf

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