[fpc-pascal] Importing units

[Ingemar Ragnemalm]

> From: Kevin Lyda<kevin at lyda.ie>
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> Subject: [fpc-pascal] Importing units
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> tl;dr How do I package reusable units for others?
>
> Back in 1988/89, I took a computer science class in high school. Yes,
> we lacked fire back then, but we had a compiler so that was fine.
> Specifically a Turbo Pascal 3.0 compiler.
>
> I had a bunch of fun writing code in it and even though pascal never
> appeared again in my software engineering career, I always thought it
> would be fun to work in again. And I have some time now and I came up
> with a project to work on in Object Pascal.
>
> You folks have made a great compiler and an amazing std library. In
> the process of my project, I'm likely going to make some units that
> will be useful for others. I'd like to do them in a way that makes
> that easy.
>
> I've been doing a bunch of Go the past several years. It's pretty fun
> and one useful thing is that you can do "go get
> some.site/some/path/go-units" and then you can use modules from there.
> You could do something like that for free pascal with git submodules.
> Not exactly the same thing, but close. Is that what people do?  Or is
> there a better way to provide units for others to use?
>
> Thanks for any guidance,
>
> Kevin
>
I have written tens of thousands of lines of reusable FPC code that I 
don't mind sharing. I have just uploaded it to my own archives. Few find 
it and I don't upload often. That is a double-edged problem; If interest 
seems low I don't upload so much and since I don't upload so often...

Of course we can put everything on GitHub but that doesn't make it much 
more visible. What would be the best solution? A common "contributed 
code" archive somewhere?

/Ingemar

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