[fpc-devel] The (near) future of strings

[Sven Barth]

Am 07.03.2016 20:30 schrieb "Marco van de Voort" <marcov at stack.nl>:
> > >>
> > >> Dotted, unicode
> > >> not dotted, unicode.
> > >>
> > >> which is clear nonsense.
> > >
> > > No, two rtls, both dotted, with namespace if needed. Which is the
same as
> > > what you propose, just kept physically apart.
> >
> > If the above fails to satisfy you, no problem, all for it.
> > But I don't see the use of the dotted for old code.
>
> That was just for simplicity's case.
>
> > Lets not forget that Delphi tries to hide a lot of the complexity by
> > always writing a complete config file and using that file when
compiling.
>
> I think a good first step would be building without storing the generated
> files in the same dir as the source.
>
> So a bit like configure that allows ../configure and works even when the
> source dir is read-only. If you start building sources multiple times in
one
> run, that is a good way.
>

That's part of the build system. E.g. our RTL and packages are already
built into separate directories. It's however not the task of the compiler
to enforce a build directory (there's no "one size fits it all" after all).

Regards,
Sven
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