[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Henry Vermaak wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 09:41:37AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Sven Barth wrote:
>>> Am 05.03.2013 10:14, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
>>>> 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.
> 
> Or implement an option that spits out the dependencies for make, so that
> the user doesn't have to do this.

Possibly augmented by timestamp-based validity checking. Yes, but I 
didn't want to muddy the water by suggesting too many things at once :-)

Seriously: if FPC's putting too much internal work into sorting out 
dependencies and somebody is prepared to write his code for an 
alternative build system, then give him enough rope. But it would 
obviously shine a harsh light on the compiler if this turned out not to 
be the major bottleneck.

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

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