Hello, My name is Nikolay Nikolov. I'm a software developer and free/open source enthusiast. I've been using Linux since Red Hat Linux 5.0. After Red Hat Linux 9, I upgraded to Fedora Core 1 and I've used every Fedora version since then. :) I'm a core developer of the Free Pascal Compiler ( https://www.freepascal.org/ ). My Free Pascal contributions include code generator support for some legacy platforms, such as 16-bit x86 and Z80, as well as modern stuff, such as GDB/MI debugger support integration in the Free Pascal IDE, x86 optimizations (for all x86 flavours - 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit). I also develop and maintain several open source projects, written in Pascal. Things I'm interested in contributing to Fedora: - co-maintaining the Free Pascal package (fpc) and adding crosscompiler support for additional targets (e.g. crosscompiling to i386-linux from x86_64, crosscompiling to win32 and win64, etc.). - packaging the DOSBox-X fork of DOSBox: https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x - packaging some of my Pascal projects, when they get a release - eventually, packaging other programs, written in Free Pascal I know the basics about building RPMs, and I even build some of the RPMs for the official Free Pascal release myself, but I still haven't made any official Fedora RPMs (i.e. that strictly conforms to the Fedora packaging guidelines, or that uses Fedora's build infrastructure). I use a lot of systems in order to test Free Pascal's many platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, various BSD flavours, but Fedora is my primary operating system and the only Linux distribution I use, except for Debian 8 on PowerPC, which I use in the rare circumstances where I need to test the PowerPC code generator or to check if some of my code runs correctly on big endian machines. :) For testing the 16-bit x86 port of Free Pascal, I use the dosbox emulator. I want to package the dosbox-x fork, because it offers better CPU compatibility and long file name support, compared to the regular dosbox. Especially on x86_64 dosbox has a nasty bug, which causes bugs in specifically Free Pascal and Free Pascal-compiled programs, due to inaccurate FPU emulation. The i386 version of dosbox doesn't have this bug (as it uses the actual x86 FPU), but dosbox-x has this fixed also on x86_64 (also by using the actual x86 FPU), so it's a better option than compiling and running a 32-bit dosbox. Dosbox-x offers better emulation accuracy, which allows more programs to run, it can correctly emulate the 4:3 aspect ratio, which makes dos games look the way their designed to look like, etc. Best regards, Nikolay _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
