[fpc-devel] Project building

[Darius Blaszijk]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Darius Blaszijk wrote:
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>> I'm already thinking a long time about creating a tool similar to ant. There
>> is already fpmake which could be used to process information read from xml.
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> fpmake does not process any XML. On the contrary, we plan to get away from
> any XMl/ini/makefile format - all is done in 100% pascal code.
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 From what I understood from IRC, I thought so. My question then is, how 
are the fpmake.pp files compiled then? Do I need to invoke fppkg to 
build all of them in my sourcetree (separate project). Does this mean 
that my project is treated like a package?

Darius

>> Were there any plans ever to create a similar frontend?
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> The current fpmake/fppkg setup is designed so it can be incorporated 
> in any existing tool. In fact, when I created fpmake, I made it such 
> way that it could easily be incorporated in a visual tool.
>
> Michael.
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