<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 11 Feb 2013, at 10:04, Sven Barth wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Monaco; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">On 11.02.2013 09:55, Jonas Maebe wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">As I've said before: I think the compiler and RTL should remain<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Makefile-based (whether or not that is in addition to fpmake support for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">them, doesn't matter to me), to make porting to new platforms easier.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"make cycle" is a very nice and easy test, and it would be quite<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">annoying if fpmkunit and all of it dependencies would have to be<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">compilable/working and installed before that could be performed. It<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">would also make the bootstrapping process in general much more complex.<br></blockquote><br>Then we would still have the problem of the outdated tools. Maybe we could write Pascal based substitutes for them that only need to handle the cases of compiler/rtl compilation...<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div>The only problem I'm aware of is cp copying the read-only attribute under Windows and refusing to overwrite such files, resulting in problems when installing examples from the packages dir from a non-exported svn checkout over a previous install. That problem does not affect either the compiler or the RTL.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jonas</div></body></html>