Subj : After Basic
To : Andy Ball
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Dec 06 2012 03:45 pm
ASB> Last time I looked at Free Pascal it wasn't as cross-
> platform as I would have liked.
ML> when was that?
AB> Some years ago.
there's been a lot of changes and bugfixes since then, i'm sure :)
ML> i'm in FP/Laz pretty much every day as i have several
> projects i've been working on to try to get familiar
> and comfortable with the environment and the nuances
> of the language...
AB> How well is it working for you, so far?
for the general basic stuff, it does quite well... some things, like a few 3rd
party libraries need some work and i have to have help on them... mainly
because they don't support my target of OS/2... i'm going thru that right now
trying to get https support working on OS/2 with synapse for a simple web
client that has to log in and pull a file and a couple of pages... later, it
will be a REST client for the same site but https has to work first... it works
great from winwhatever... i've not tried it from linux which synapse also
supports... my dev box is winwhatever and OS/2 is the main production system
where all the processing needs to be done... i'm not really wanting to use wget
to pull the files from that site, either... it would be a lot better for my
tool to pull and process all in one go ;)
but like i say, outside of a few things, so far things are good... i'm also
just getting started porting mark may's MKSMG library to FPC so i can start
doing more work with the FTN style BBS message bases... i may possibly continue
the porting and move on to his MKBBS as well... i dunno... that's a later
thing...
speaking of BBSes, there's also Mystic BBS which is written in FPC and coming
along very nicely, too ;)
