[Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be
Mon Feb 27 13:18:39 CET 2012



On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Vincent Snijders wrote:

> Op 27 februari 2012 12:45 heeft Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
> <felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think Vincent is asking where you got the numbers you quoted.  Or did you
>>> just make them up?  I.e. "citation needed".
>>
>> I invented the numbers. But if anyone thinks they are not realistic,
>> just get the download numbers for FPC and Lazarus, compare with other
>> competing projects, and prove me wrong.
>
> On debian, it is not so popular compared with gpc:
> Look at http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=fpc
> and http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=gpc-4.1

Huh ? The way I read it, it's exactly opposite ?

Inst number: fp-compiler has 1043, (0,85%), gpc has 353 (0,29%) ?

Votes: fp-compiler has 183,  gpc has 47

In each case, it's not a very clear statistic by any standards.

Michael.


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