[fpc-pascal] alternative source format

[Rimgaudas Laucius]

Hello,

i had in mind something like unified project format for all pascal's IDEs.
Open XML formats are popular in open source world now. But i do not think
this idea were anymore.


> > Hello,
>
> Hi,
>
> > the problem is that IDEs like FP and others have no exact
> > place where to store compiler configuration switches and
> > other program (project) related info. For examle if user set
> > switches in FP, they effect all opened units, so there is no
> > possibility to configure each unit differently if you do not use
> > directives.
>
> Since my IDE is JEdit I'm not sure, but each IDE for pascal I used in
> the past had a key combination for inserting the compiler switches in
> the code. Wasn't it CTRL-I-I in Delphi?
>
> > That is problem for less experienced users, like students.
> > I want to propose an idea of implementation alternative
> > source format able to carry all additional information.
> > This can be open format realized using xml. It will not make problems
> > with conversion to native "pas" format. Additional argument that FPC
> > will support UTF-8 soon.
> >
> > Something like this:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > [...]
> > </fpc>
> >
> > What do you think about this?
>
> If you're a teacher or the like and want to have full documentation in
> your source files you might wan't to consider literate programming.
> There are many tools out there, one of them I personally like for
> writing documentation centric code is funnelweb. This way you can
> produce nice documentation containing the well formatted code and
> anything belonging to one source project and on the other hand you can
> produce nicely formatted source code and even a makefile for compiling.
>
> I don't like the idea of having XML files as a basis. But If you do, how
> about writing en extension to the IDE or Lazarus and the necessary
> converters as a teaching project?
>
> Marc
>
>
>
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