[fpc-other] Use the IDE for FORTRAN

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Arjan van Dijk said:
> Some of my source-code is NOT in Pascal, but in Fortran.
> I would really be very glad to develop my Fortran programs as effeciently 
> as my  Pascal-projects (on a Windows box). 
> 
> Has anyone ever tried to modify the IDE that comes with FreePascal to
> work as a Fortran workbench using e.g. the g95-compiler and GDB? 

Not that I know.

> If nobody has tried this yet, can someone estimate how much effort 
> it would take to modify the IDE?

The IDE has not been setup for multi-lingual support. Both the Pascal
compiler and GDB are integrated, not external.

But that doesn't mean it's impossible. Just unknown.

> And where to start?

ide directory in SVN, and the wiki page:

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Textmode_IDE_development