[fpc-pascal] -FNsystem

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 27 May 2021, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:

> Mattias Gaertner via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> schrieb
> am Do., 27. Mai 2021, 13:32:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There are some dotted units in fpc, e.g. system.uitypes.
>> So it would be nice to have -FNsystem in the default fpc.cfg (Delphi
>> compatible).
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>
> While I agree that adding the namespaces might be a good idea, the fpc.cfg
> is not: unlike with Delphi, where it's available as a setting, the fpc.cfg
> can't be changed from the IDE. And you can't "unadd" a default namespace,
> it needs to be actively removed from the cfg.
>
> Also the less fpc.cfg does automatically for *such* settings the better
> (its why we're essentially stuck with enabled C operators as well...).

I also think that this should not be enabled by default.

Such things should be enabled only when we finally release a
unicode-enabled RTL.

With recent changes by Jonas in fpmake, this can now be created with more ease.

Michael.