[fpc-devel] OO Rewrite - structural changes

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

My current attempt of an object-oriented refactoring of the compiler 
proceeds quite fast :-)

Unfortunately this attempt will affect the structure of the entire 
project, so that it may become hard, later, to track the history of the 
otherwise unchanged functionality (procedure implementations). E.g. 
currently the parser is scattered across multiple units. When a parser 
class is created, all the procedures in these units must become methods 
of this class. This is not a technical problem, the units will be 
re-used as include files, with stripped unit heading (unit ... 
implementation) and procedure headers changed into method headers.

Actually I missed to create the branch first, before starting editing - 
I hope that I can correct this bad approach. But I suspect the same 
history problem, when the branch shall be merged into the trunk, later. 
What should I do, to reduce such losses to a minimum?

DoDi