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

Vincent Snijders vincent.snijders at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 13:23:23 CET 2012


Op 27 februari 2012 13:18 heeft  <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be> het
volgende geschreven:
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>
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Vincent Snijders wrote:
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>> 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:

With 'not *so* popular' I meant having 95 or 99% of the market share.

>> Look at http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=fpc
>> and http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=gpc-4.1
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>
> Huh ? The way I read it, it's exactly opposite ?
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> Inst number: fp-compiler has 1043, (0,85%), gpc has 353 (0,29%) ?
>
> Votes: fp-compiler has 183,  gpc has 47
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> In each case, it's not a very clear statistic by any standards.

No, but it is better than nothing.

Vincent




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