[fpc-pascal] PCRE

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> > > Doing a dumb header port is not that hard. If you can't do it, start
> > > making
> > > tests, and I'll do it.
>
> (skip nonsense stuff)

No, not nonsense. Jeff P. (yetanothergeek) had a header for freepascal not using
any JCL, AFAIK. Which is the original link I provided, which wasn't working.
Which is why I posted this to the mailing list.

He did it for us already, AFAIK. No sense repeating Jeff's work if he already
did it.

>
> > So why use the JCL? Just do all the translations yourself.. forget JCL.
>
> - JCL's license is MPL and thus not suitable for inclusion in FPC
>    http://wiki.freepascal.org/licensing

Because of the ridiculous GPL license which freepascal uses, which isn't as free
as a BSD/NRCOL/MIT license.

That's not JCL's problem, that is freepascal and GPL's problem.
Blame it on them.

Freedoom can go both ways. Although I think you are a BSD fan and I am
patronizing anyway.

> - JCL is not in a runnable state for most FPC targets.
> - translated Delphi headers are typically not clean for cross platform
> (most
>   notably 64-bit) use.

Jeff's unit may have been, for all you know, which is the unit that I supplied a
uRL to in my first email. Which I cannot download, and am waiting for Jeff to
reply. In the mean time, S. Fisher has already got a unit working while we were
yapping.

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