[fpc-pascal] Remote FreePascal compile service, feedback requested

[Tony Pelton]

On 12/5/05, Tom Verhoeff <T.Verhoeff at tue.nl> wrote:
> Why do this?  Because that way people can use/try FreePascal without
> installing anything.

ah ...

installing really isn't too complicated currently.

download a tarball, expand it, and run the compiler ?

i can't imagine having to fiddle around with some webapp is going to
be any simpler than that.

> Mabye we can support cross compiles as well.

_this_ might actually be compelling.

i use FreePascal for developing plugins for a flight simulator for instance.

the flight simulator runs on windows, OSX and Linux, but i only have
access to windows and linux for compiling.

being able to cross compile to OSX would be cool.

there are others in the same community of people who use Delphi, that
i have been trying to hook into FreePascal who have the same problem.

being able to point them at a place to cross compile their Delphi
projects to non-windows platforms would be cool.

>
> Furthermore, we plan to support several versions of FreePascal in
> parallel.  That way, it may also be useful to the FreePascal community.
> E.g. when diagnosing a problem.

i suspect anyone who is "diagnosing" anything to this detail is going
to want to have their versions/tools locally so that can see what is
going on.

>
>         Tom Verhoeff

Tony