From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon South Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:36:07 -0400 Message-ID: <1284118567.2190.29.camel@hamlet.localdomain> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284177030 6666 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2010 03:50:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:50:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 11 05:50:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuH6g-0001ki-SG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:50:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45345 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OuH6f-0002Nj-CU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43769 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ou1u8-0002Yl-Dt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:36:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou1u4-0003Hw-Dt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:36:28 -0400 Original-Received: from caiajhbdcbef.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.145]:54730 helo=postalmail-a2.g.dreamhost.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou1u4-0003He-5g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.106] (CPE0019b90fad23-CM00407b87aa6e.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.238.107.135]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by postalmail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 882F8111D90; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:36:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 (2.30.3-1.fc13) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:30:04 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129943 Archived-At: 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