[fpc-other] What makes a Compiler project (like FPC) special?

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:


>    Just to be clear, I'm not pushing Git here - I know you guys will
>    not change - Florian made that very clear.

Yes, boundless leaps of faith are out of the question. Git should be a tool,
not a religion.

>    But Florian's statements just bugged me, and I see no proof to
>    convince me otherwise - a compiler is just a complex project.
>    Nothing "special" as he claimed it to be.

I do think Nikolay's point of it being more interconnected describes it
fairly well. There are no narrow interfaces that are natural seams for
modularization inside the compiler.