[fpc-devel] Public access of FPC features and settings

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2021, Florian Klämpfl via fpc-devel wrote:

>> Since we write the resource strings in JSON, and XML is meanwhile all but
>> replaced by JSON, I think it would be much better to write JSON ?
>> 
>
> The compiler writes the node tree already as XML, so I thought XML might 
> be the better choice?

The node tree is not for public use. 
The resource string files are, and this is too...

> Despite the fact that I really dislike json for 
> two reasons: it reminds me of JS and C; ad hoc writing is annoying due 
> to the comma being a separator and no trailing commas after the last 
> value being allowed.

Well, then it means pas2js will unfortunately not follow FPC in this; 
if anything it will write JSON, because it already writes 
everything else in JSON. 
I would have preferred to use the same format, and we're not adding XML to
it.

When you finish it in FPC, I can always add -ij for json.

Michael.