[fpc-devel] The future of fpmake

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Darius Blaszyk wrote:

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> On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Darius Blaszyk wrote:
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>>> On Mar 30, 2011, at 5:31 PM, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
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>>>>> - managing debug/release builds (also cross-compiling)
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>>>> What is failing in the current system for this ?
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>>> I was thinking to be able to do something like :
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>>>> fpmake build debug
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>>> This will add some debug options to the build process. Also it should be possible to create a custom build profile.
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>> And how would you do this ?
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>> I don't want to complicate fpmake unnecessarily.
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> Improve the command line paring algorithm. It should check if there is something behind the build command line option. 
> If so then it is a named build profile. In fpmake you could check the TDefaults.Profile property to determine which options to add.

I would prefer a named option, i.e.

fpmake build --profile=debug

and I think TDefaults.Profile needs to be 
a) A collection.
b) Loadable from some config file, I suppose ?
--profile then just selects one item in the collection.

Other than that, I think this is OK.

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>>>>> - cmake like system (display and store information on builds and test suites, etc)
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>>>> fppkg should handle that part of the job, not fpmake.
>>> To make fppkg work for my own project I need to add a fppkg.cfg to my project right?
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>> There is no such thing as 'fppkg for a project', so I'm not sure what you mean here.
> But I am talking about using fpmake for projects other than FPC. 
> So the cdash (not cmake as I mistakenly wrote in the mail) idea should also work for standalone projects.

In that case, I don't understand what you mean.

fpmake's intended use is to compile your FPC code. 
I can see the use of trying to run a testsuite, build docs and a binary zip for distribution: 
they are all FPC related things.

But it is not intended as a general build system (i.e. replace make or ant or rpm or deb).

Michael.