[fpc-devel] Proposal to make the compiler message "PPU Invalid Version" a fatal error.

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:12:25 +0200 (CEST)
Daniël Mantione <daniel.mantione at freepascal.org> wrote:

>[...]
> >> The text mode IDE can display statisics while compiling. Why can't
> >> Lazarus?
> >>
> >> There is the compiler unit, which *is* available, and this is the
> >> only officially supported compiler interface. We are not against
> >> other officially supported interfaces, but parsing messages is
> >> definately not an offical interface and recommended against. It is
> >> not the first time we have this discussion, we discussed possible
> >> protocols before.
> >
> > Can you give a link?
> 
> http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-devel/2006-May/007788.html

Thanks.
The thread did not discuss all problems, but it has one good idea:
We need a machine readable output format for fpc.
Any progress?


Mattias