[fpc-pascal] OData and Office365 REST API support

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org
>> wrote:
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>> googleapis also does not have an own repository ?
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>> They don't, but maybe they should.
> It's just taking more and more time to check out trunk.

How often do you check out trunk ? I can't remember when I last did that.

I think I have explained my reasoning for including this in FPC SVN before: 
I consider these things as fundamental as the Win32 API or MacOS or libc headers. 
The world is more and more connected. More and more web APIs exist. 
That they happen to work over the net is irrelevant;

As such, I consider web APIs an essential part of the compiler (or indeed any) toolchain. 
In fact I think FPC is woefully behind in this department...

Michael.

PS. Maybe switching to git alone may make a checkout less painful, if we may
believe some supporters... But that is the topic of a separate thread :-)