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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">I received
the mail about FreePascal IDE. I think I could help you but first I would
like to have more details about what are the requirements and responsibilities
of a maintainer. I have some experience in IDE making and I would like to give
you more details about an IDE we (me and my brother) have made. It is not
finished yet but it includes some important requirements an IDE must have.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">This IDE
was implemented in C# under .NET. It was not made specifically for pascal, it
was made for languages that gdb can work with (so FreePascal is included).
Debugging part is totally based on gdb. IDE sends requests to gdb, reads the
results and performs needed actions. So now our IDE has debugging features
(step in, step over, run to cursor, watching variables) and they work fine. Sure
you can write and compile your program. However now it lacks any highlight
features and we use a simple richtextbox for code writing (we have considered
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">If you
want I can send you the IDE.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Best regards,</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Jucovschi
Constantin</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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