[fpc-pascal] FP IDE sources

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024, Tomas Hajny via fpc-pascal wrote:

> On 2024-03-14 11:06, Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> Op 14-3-2024 om 11:04 schreef Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> To me it therefore seems a better idea to move the IDE to utils, and to 
>>> have a
>>> toplevel make command that does the same as 'make all' simply without the
>>> utilities. Or have a 'NOUTILS=1' define.
>>> 
>> Or let fpmake simply build the union of packages and utils in
>> parallel. So separate directories, but one build stage
>
> Well, whatever. I remember having raised the same question in the past 
> (indeed - on the 5th of February 2020 at 1:30am ;-) on the core list) and 
> this is what I got... I even explicity raised the point also mentioned by 
> Michael now (quoting my follow-up mail on the same day):
>
> "OK, that would be addressed in case of inclusion under utils as well. Even 
> more so, actually - users who want to recompile packages for whatever reason 
> (e.g. to have debug information included as discussed here recently ;-) ) 
> aren't probably interested in waiting for rebuilding of the IDE at all."
>
> However, Michael refused to move it to utils at that point in time in order 
> not to delay the release. ;-)

Given the delay we're experiencing on 3.2.4, my refusal was not without reason :-)

However, if there is agreement to do so, maybe we can move it in trunk.

Michael.