[fpc-pascal]Fw: RE: Toolkit

[Florian Klaempfl]

Alan Mead wrote:

Jonas made already TTT patches to throw out all asm iirc. But be 
patient, he's out of office this week :) If he doesn't read this email, 
email him personally.

I propose that we put the sources in the fpc contrib source tree.

> Frank,
> 
> This is cool.  So, IIRC the original TTT sources have a whole lot of
> ASM code (I don't recall if it was ASM blocks on, I think my use
> pre-dated ASM blocks).  Computers are so fast today that I wonder if
> it is needed; would we want to port the asm or just replace it with
> Pascal?  (Hint, hint:  I only know Pascal :)
> 
> -Alan
> 
> --- Frank W McCormick <fmccormick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>>
>>    Last month a few people were inquiring about porting the Bob
>>Ainsbury toolkit to FPC - I tracked him down and
>>here is his go-ahead. Have fun!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 08:04:06 -0700
>>From: "Bob at Ainsbury.com" <bob at ainsbury.com>
>>To: "Frank W McCormick" <fmccormick at sympatico.ca>
>>Subject: RE: Toolkit
>>
>>
>>Frank,
>>
>>Sorry for the delay. I was out of the country.
>>
>>Yes, please feel free to use it, but you will need to make sure
>>that we
>>do
>>not accept responsibility for these "derivative works", i.e. any
>>defects
>>that arise (even if they were in the original code) are your
>>responsibility.
>>Just don't want to inherit any pursuit from your customers.
>>
>>Good Luck... and send me a copy!
>>
>>Best Regards,
>>
>>Bob "TJ" Ainsbury
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Frank W McCormick [mailto:fmccormick at sympatico.ca]
>>Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:57 AM
>>To: bob at ainsbury.com
>>Subject: Tooklit
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Hi Bob.
>>
>>    This email is to seek permission from you to port your
>>TechnoJock
>>toolkit for Turbo Pascal to the latest FPC compiler.
>>    We realize that not too many
>>people are still using Turbo-Pascal, so it would seem logical your
>>work
>>could go on in another form.
>>    If you like I could release the code under
>>a modified GPL.
>>
>>    Hoping to hear from you.