[fpc-devel] fpmake listsources

[dhkblaszyk at zeelandnet.nl]

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>
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Darius Blaszijk wrote:
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>> So, to list everything on the package creation;
>>
>> Can we have fpmake to create the individual packages, or does fppkg need
>> to be
>> fed with a list of sources per package and package them. I would prefer
>> the
>> first as it will keep the code more clean and will give other users of
>> fpmake
>> the ability to create source packages, independent of fppkg. Fppkg
>> should call
>> archive (or better call it package) instead of listsources.
>
> There are 2 sides to this question:
>
> I think if we want to use fpmake outside strict FPC-related stuff, then
> it's better to have the archiving inside fpmake. So then we must go for
> that option. This was also my original idea when implementing it.
>
> The problem with this - Peter Vreman pointed this out - is bootstrapping:
> If FPC is ported to a new platform, it means that to compile fpmake,
> TZipper should compile, and that in turn means that a whole lot of other
> stuff should compile as well. This is why it was decided to move the
> archiving to fppkg.
>
> Therefor, my proposal is the following: Both should be able to do
> archiving.
>
> in fpmkunit, the TZipper support should be in an {$IFNDEF EXTERNALZIP},
> the alternative should be calling a regular zip application. The
> EXTERNALZIP can be defined when porting to a new platform.
>
> In fppkg, TZipper support can be included by default. The list of files
> should be retrieved from fpmake, which needs this list anyway.
>
>>
>> I will also expose the TSources methods AddDocFiles, AddSrcFiles,
>> AddExampleFiles and AddTestFiles in TPackage and add these files in the
>> archiving process (will have to make sure I don't add files double).
>>
>> If that's ok with everyone ;)
>
> Perfectly OK !

So it shall be done.

Darius