[fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

[Tomas Hajny]

On Mon, February 11, 2013 10:04, Sven Barth wrote:
> 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 Then we would still have the problem of the outdated tools.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...

That's what I did for rm with rmwait indeed. However, people writing such
replacements need to be careful to restrict themselves to plain RTL (and
preferably the cross-platform parts only) rather than using packages
simplifying the work on one hand but leading to many dependencies on the
other.

Tomas