[Lazarus] Do we really need a PaintSwastika procedure?

Giuliano Colla giuliano.colla at fastwebnet.it
Sat Jan 9 18:23:57 CET 2016


Il 09/01/2016 14:09, Juha Manninen ha scritto:
> What if come up with library that draws all important symbols?

Well, of course you're free to do with your time whatever you please or 
feel right about.

But please consider the following.

The Internet is crowded with drawings of all conceivable symbols. There 
are myriads of such collection:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Political_symbols_by_ideology
https://www.google.it/search?q=political+symbols&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUxMe8m53KAhWCwBQKHVgNBXsQ_AUIBygB&biw=1440&bih=636
https://www.google.it/search?q=religious+symbols&biw=1440&bih=636&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjxhJOenJ3KAhUHRhQKHcQNDL4QsAQIHg

On the other hand there's only a handful of good Lazarus programmers and 
developers.

The Open Source community provides a common ground where people of 
different religions, of different political opinions, coming from 
different countries, sometimes at war the one against the other, work 
together for a common goal, and learn to respect and appreciate each 
other for what they are and what they can do, disregarding any 
religious, political or ethnic label they carry.

Just take a look to the list of the Lazarus contributors and of the 
Lazarus mailing list to understand what I mean. You'll spot there Arabs 
and Jews, Americans, Russians and Chinese, whites, blacks and yellows, 
people coming from the richest countries of the world and people coming 
from the poorest, etc. etc. (I failed to locate Native Americans and 
Inuit, but possibly only because of e-mail nicknames ambiguity)
You'll also notice that fpc and Lazarus (as most of the OS projects) try 
to support at the same time the latest technology for the lucky ones 
living in rich countries, and the older ones for those who can't afford it.

IMHO what you're currently doing, i.e. doing your best in an OS project 
is a much more substantial way to contribute to the world peace, than 
spending time in another symbol library which would just add to the many 
existing and pass completely unnoticed.

Back to the original thread subject, IMO the best course is simply to 
remove the PaintSwastika procedure, which is out of place in a small 
collection of simple graphic shapes, and only risks to give a pro-Nazi 
flavour to the collection, instead of losing time in populating the 
collection with all the other conceivable symbols, which most likely 
nobody is ever going to insert in a Lazarus program.

Just my opinion,

Giuliano





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