Peter Gerwinski wrote:
The African Chief wrote:
I do not have the energy, time, or even the knowhow to port the other FV units (especially those with asm code in them) to GPC, so others will have to take on that task on (IIRC Peter is looking into doing this - am I right, Peter?).
Yes, but the amount of other things I have to do is ... well ... nicht mehr feierlich (= no more solemn; means: no joke). Better don't hold your breath. :-(
Ok. Are there any other takers?
AFAICS the FV license terms are not GPL compatible and there may be other copyright issues that will make the ported FV Objects unit not distributable with GPC.
That's indeed a problem, but I think that they did not decide to be incompatible to the GPL but just wrote their license in a careless way. I would be glad if someone could take over the negotiations.
I wrote to the alleged overseer of the FV project quite a while ago - I never got any response. I suppose I could write to Florian Klaempfl (who oversees the FPC development) and see what he can do.
If anyone is interested, I can make a copy of my current "development" version available (perhaps on my homepage).
I can set up a link to that project from the main GPC homepage if that makes some sense. Or else we can place a homepage for the FV4GPC project on Agnes in the GPC homepage tree.
Any thoughts?
I would think that Agnes is the best place for it, so the latter idea seems preferable. Basically, I have finished with the Objects unit. That could probably go on immediately (with the caveats [a] that EGCS-based GPC users on Linux and Win32 will not be able to compile the unit until the "New(pFile)" problem is solved, [b] that, for those on Solaris, etc., there may be "endian" issues that I am unaware of).
We could just put the Objects unit there, since that is already ported to GPC - or we could put the whole package there for people to see what is required to port the rest of the units to GPC.
Any thoughts?