[Lazarus] Challenge of converting a Delphi project

[Juha Manninen]

Samuel Herzog wrote:
> I compiled ess-model from your git repo on win32.
> Had to add 3 TODO's to make it compilable for win32.
> 
> Tried to commit the changes to your git-repo.
> It was the first time I used git and it looks like my user-settings were not
> very good. The name used to commit was "master". I have changed my settings
> so next time it should be better.
> 
> That's it for the moment. Will play around with the sources as soon as I
> have some spare time.

No, you can't commit (push) your changes directly to my repository.
The GitHub "free plan" account allows only one personal repository and no 
other direct committers. However, it allows you to fork any number of existing 
repositories, change them and then send pull requests.

The flow is explained nicely here:
http://jagregory.com/writings/git-remotes-contributions-and-the-letter-n/

I am also learning this now and I would be happy to test with your pull 
request. It should be easy:

First, at http://github.com:
 1. Create a "free plan" account.
 2. Find my Pascal repository.
 3. Click the Fork-button. Now you have a forked Pascal repo.

Then at your machine:
 $ git clone git://github.com/YourName/Pascal.git
 Edit code ... git commit ... repeat if needed.
 $ git push origin

Then again at http://github.com:
Select your forked Pascal repo and click "Pull Request" button. There should 
be my name selected automatically.

It is actually cool. I was wondering how git users can pull from each other 
when most people have dynamic IP addresses. GitHub is one way to solve that.


> Thank you very much for your incredible work you did for the DelphiToLazarus 
Convertion stuff !!!!

Thanks for the positive feedback but the converter is not so incredible yet. 
The form file conversion fails on most non-trivial Delphi projects. Needs much 
more work.

The converter will never be perfect. I mean it can't do a fully automatic 
conversion. This EssModel prog is a good example. I can't convert it even 
manually after days of debugging. It would never happen automatically.


Regards,
Juha
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