[fpc-devel] msgtxt.inc and msgidx.inc

[Vincent Snijders]

Florian Klaempfl schreef:
> Alexander Klenin schrieb:
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 18:35, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>>> And taking into account the size of the patch (see below and ignore the
>>> auto generated files msg*.inc), it's worth to add. private etc. cause
>>> much more trouble in the compiler and has no more real use imo.
>>>
>>>> By I guess this whole thread got taken over by the "sealed"
>>>> discussion. I'm pretty sure, through all this, Paul is still waiting
>>>> on a definite answer of: is my patch ok?
>>> See
>>> http://github.com/graemeg/freepascal/commit/6d0dc36b82ba90403594f00bdd96a36b5b820f66
>> BTW, I have already asked in the beginning of the thread,
>> but got no answer: why are those files under version control at all?
>>
> 
> Because it's easier to handle when doing compiler development work
> because you usually don't use makefiles to build stuff but some IDE/editor.

I thought it was for easier bootstrapping: no need to build msg2inc before ppc1.

Vincent