[fpc-pascal] DCPCrypt as part of FCL?

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Tue Jan 20 16:10:53 CET 2009


In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
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> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> >
> > 1. Did you contact the author? Licensewise it is already ok I think (MIT/BSD
> > license without advocacy clause), but it is the decent thing to do nonetheless.
> 
> I have not, but I don't mind doing so.

Good. This mostly is important to create willingness to accept FPC related
upstream patches.

> > 2. Did you validate its working on 64-bit and big endian machines? That is a
> > requirement before we can even think about adding.
> 
> I can test on a 64bit system, but not a big endian machine.  Can
> anybody help with the latter?

Not me currently. Half of my computer room is packed up pending a new roof,
including the mini.

Note another thing to check is if there are unit names in that archive that
already exist.



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