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How future "safe" is Carbon - anyone knows?
Trenatos:
Man, there's a $3000 bounty for a fully working Cocoa implementation, and still not done... Not a good sign.
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Bounties
Phil:
--- Quote from: Trenatos on June 15, 2018, 07:55:48 pm ---Man, there's a $3000 bounty for a fully working Cocoa implementation, and still not done... Not a good sign.
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Bounties
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When that was posted 6 months ago or so, I suggested something to the effect that the bounty was too vague and too ambitious. Just the demo app alone would be huge and really should be provided by the poster with the post. (Actually, it doesn't even make much sense - how do you test every widget? Every property? Every method?)
And while that sum might seem large for a project like Lazarus, for someone with the requisite skills to actually finish this amorphous thing that's called a widgetset, it's not very much.
Trenatos:
I get that. I'm a software developer by trade. $3k only gets you so far, but for an otherwise volunteer-only project that's a decent sum.
I don't have the skills needed to work on it, I wouldn't even know where to start, bounty or not.
As for testing every property, method, etc. that's what unit-testing is for.
If we can't get movement with a $3k bounty to not write from scratch, but only finish Cocoa, I don't feel hopeful about using Lazarus for Mac in the future :/
I contribute to other open source projects already, but I've no idea how I could help with this.
Phil:
--- Quote from: Trenatos on June 15, 2018, 08:39:50 pm ---As for testing every property, method, etc. that's what unit-testing is for.
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I don't see Lazarus unit tests anywhere. You mean those would need to be done too?
Thaddy:
--- Quote from: Phil on June 15, 2018, 08:43:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: Trenatos on June 15, 2018, 08:39:50 pm ---As for testing every property, method, etc. that's what unit-testing is for.
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I don't see Lazarus unit tests anywhere. You mean those would need to be done too?
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Well actually YES. Luckily the compiler team writes unit tests.......<sigh and grumpy >:D >:D >:D >:D>
I still do not understand the lack of testing in Lazarus. (But somehow it turns out OK, that is by accident!)
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