From: Simon South <ssouth@simonsouth.ca>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:36:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1284118567.2190.29.camel@hamlet.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd3sl97vg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 13:05 +0200, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Can someone enlighten me on the status of Delphi w.r.t Free Software?
> > AFAICT it's proprietary (and there's a Free Software alternative called
> > Lazarus which is IIUC a sort of library for Free Pascal).
Yes, that's correct. (Well, I believe Lazarus is more an
IDE-slash-RAD-tool than a set of libraries. But yes, the idea is that
Lazarus + Free Pascal would be a free replacement for Delphi.)
> > Also, what's the relationship between pascal-mode and delphi-mode?
> > Is there some overlap between the two, should there be more overlap,
> > or less?
Each of these targets a different major dialect of Pascal and is
completely separate from the other. Having a single mode might be nice
but I think writing a parser that would (neatly) handle both dialects
would be a big challenge. Plus I seem to recall the two modes are quite
different architecturally at the moment, so at least one would need to
be rewritten.
--
Simon South
ssouth@simonsouth.ca
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-10 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-12 16:03 Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 11:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 11:36 ` Simon South [this message]
2010-09-10 12:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 13:25 ` Simon South
2010-09-11 9:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-13 10:50 ` Simon South
2010-09-11 5:30 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-11 9:28 ` Simon South
2010-09-11 10:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-13 11:01 ` Simon South
2010-09-13 15:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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