[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 05.03.2013 10:14, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
>> Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>
>>> But even when in theory (which I btw don't even want to consider), 
>>> you are
>>> equivalent to C in this way, it basically means disabling the unit 
>>> system,
>>> and users must start to manual maintain dependencies, and learn to
>>> interpretate cryptic errormessages if an incremental build goes haywire.
>>>
>>> C users and developers are trained in this, and have their experience in
>>> detangling the web of deps etc, have developed semi-automated helper 
>>> tools
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> Inflicting this on the Pascal masses is unrealistic and undesirable.
>>> Sticking to the manual build principles because the FPC devels can 
>>> handle it
>>> essentially means that nobody else will have parallel builds, or will 
>>> resort
>>> to a system of doing full builds only. (but that is throwing away the 
>>> big
>>> savings to gain small ones). Something that big C projects resort to 
>>> anyway,
>>> I'm told.
>>>
>>> And FPC even only in a few critical points.
>>>
>>> Manual maintenance is simply too painful (and atypical for modular 
>>> languages and
>>> its users).
>>
>> But on the other hand, if an application programmer could disable 
>> FPC's unit handling and use  make -j  instead, choosing to pay the 
>> price of difficult maintenance, it might defuse the criticism coming 
>> from certain quarters.
>>
> Make can not figure out the dependencies between units by itself as it 
> would need to parse them.

That's for the user to do, if he thinks he can do a better job than FPC.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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