[fpc-devel] The future of fpmake

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Jonas Maebe wrote:

>
> On 31 Mar 2011, at 14:26, Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be wrote:
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>> On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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>>> On 31 Mar 2011, at 13:29, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 1. they are mostly generated anyway. The .fpc files are the info, not the
>>>> makefiles themselves.
>>> 
>>> I still prefer those Makefile.fpc files very much to the fpmake.pp files.
>> 
>> The idea is to completely get rid of make.
>
> I know, but I was not discussing that (although I'm not a big fan of doing so 
> either, but I know that's a done deal). What I said was "Sticking to the 
> Makefile.fpc format (or any other structured format) and then automatically 
> generating something else from that (be it plain Makefiles, fpmake.pp or 
> whatever) would make it much easier to maintain the actual build 
> instructions, I think."

The problem is that the Makefile.fpc does not contain enough info and logic
for our purposes.

>
> It is possible to stop supporting make without switching to manually writing 
> and maintaining fpmake.pp programs themselves. I don't think that allowing 
> the full flexibility of an arbitrary Pascal program as build instructions a 
> good idea, because it makes maintenance harder and makes it less easy to get 
> a quick overview of what is built/done.

I think you're too pessimistic :-)

If you look at the existing fpmake.pp files in the RTL/packages, you'll see
that they are still very simple.

Michael.