[fpc-pascal] Re: Delphi's anonymous functions in Free Pascal

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 06.11.2011 19:21, schrieb Jürgen Hestermann:
> Florian Klämpfl schrieb:
>>> I have the same feeling as Dmitry: There must be a time when FPC does
>>> not run after Delphi. Why not now?
>> Feel free to start a fork and we will see what will make it into trunk.
> 
> Sorry, but I don't know what you are talking about. Isn't it you (and a
> few others) who decide what becomes part of FPC? It's not a democratic
> vote, isn't it?

Will you organize democratic votes in the future on rejected patches?

Remember though, there is something like a consititution:
- FPC is a pascal compiler written in pascal.
- Patches may break old code as little as possible and cause no
regressions in the regression tests.

If you don't like this, you should fork FPC. Though we can discuss to
change the first sentence into
- FPC is a compiler  written in pascal for wirthian languages.
But to do so, somebody has really to prove it's commitment over years.

> 
> 
>>> Other changes were rejected too.
>> Yes. We reject patches to turn FPC into an OS, a C compiler or a coffee
>> machine. No, wait, I think we would accept the last one.
> 
> But *you* are deciding this, not?

Yes, because nobody did yet volunteer to setup and maintain the
structure to organize votes on rejected patches. Probably also because
their number is too low.

> 
> 
>> This is everybody's decision. You decided also to write a lengthy mail
>> instead of submitting a patch to a bug report as well while the patch
>> would be much more usefull in my eyes.
> 
> Sorry, I don't know how to submit a patch. Forgive me if I am not on the
> same knowledge level as you on FPC.

Read the handbook of your browser how to upload files if a website
contains such a field. Then go to the issue report in the bug tracker
and upload the patch.