[fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

[Sven Barth]

On 11.02.2013 09:55, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
> On 11 Feb 2013, at 09:45, Sven Barth wrote:
>
>> On 10.02.2013 23:04, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>> I never spent more than an evening on the test though, since I rather get
>>> rid of all the mingw parts instead (think fpmake here)
>>
>> This might be the best. Let's see that fpmake can handle all that and
>> then get rid of the remaining tool dependencies.
>
> As I've said before: I think the compiler and RTL should remain
> Makefile-based (whether or not that is in addition to fpmake support for
> them, doesn't matter to me), to make porting to new platforms easier.
> "make cycle" is a very nice and easy test, and it would be quite
> annoying if fpmkunit and all of it dependencies would have to be
> compilable/working and installed before that could be performed. It
> would also make the bootstrapping process in general much more complex.

Then we would still have the problem of the outdated tools. Maybe we 
could write Pascal based substitutes for them that only need to handle 
the cases of compiler/rtl compilation...

Regards,
Sven