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

[Sven Barth]

Am 27.02.2012 21:02, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 02:53:21PM +0100, Sven Barth wrote:
>>> http://rpmfind.net/
>>>
>>> Found 157 RPM for fpc
>>>
>>> Found 3 RPM for gpc (all of them in very old Mandriva versions)
>>>
>>> You can't even find GPC packages in newer distributions.
>>>
>>> See also:
>>>
>>> http://pkgs.org/search/?keyword=gpc
>>>
>>> Appears in Ubuntu 10. Disappeared from Ubuntu 11
>>
>> Also according to the GNU Pascal site it seems to only support GCC<4
>> with the last release being from 2006. I can't tell how valid this
>> observations are (I didn't find a source repository by quickly looking),
>> so please handle with care.
>
> While GPC is not very active atm, and a case could be made that it is dead,
> these kinds of statistics are not very comparable.
>
> This because GPC has a totally different release and development model
> (read: none since 2.1), and nearly all builds are independent build of
> target-maintainers, that often also keep own source trees, and mutually
> absorb patches.
>
> It is very difficult to compare this with FPC, that actively pushes
> distribution specific releases (deb, rpm, freebsd ports).

That's why I wrote "please handle with care" ;)

Regards,
Sven