alternative aliases [Re: [fpc-devel] Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Ideas for namespace implementation]

[Alexander Klenin]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 21:48, Martin <fpc at mfriebe.de> wrote:
>> I think that ability to use plain
>> "fpc myproject.pas" to build the whole project is an important
>> advantage which would be lost with your alias proposal.
>
> Not really
> "fpc myproject.pas"
>
> for a project that uses RxLib, only works if RxLib is in the search path =>
> so that needs to be set up anyway, then in future, that should always
> contain the alias.

This is one use case, yes.
But another (and, for me at least, more important) use case is:
I have (in a corporate environment) a VCS with many interdependent projects.
All used libraries are under version control too, since they often
contain changes not (yet) submitted upstream.
When I do a clone, I have all required libraries in subdirectories of
the cloned project, so I really *can* do just "fpc myproject.pas".

So at least the relative paths in namespace aliases
are an absolute requirement for me, and ability to use "ad-hoc"
namespaces without command-line setup would be an advantage too,
although not that critical.

-- 
Alexander S. Klenin