On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, DrDiettrich wrote:
I split up my answers to your mail, because the topics are a bit different. > Now you should have gotten the big picture of my intended activities. > Many more questions will arise when I proceed with my work. I already > decided to replace my own "stdc" unit by the FPC "libc" unit, with > hopefully no changes to that unit. None other than bugfixes will be accepted: libc is the interface to the real C library (glibc) on Linux. The interface is therefore fixed and not subject to change, unless libc changes. You must explain what you want: + An interface to libc - then the libc is OK for you. + An imitation of libc (on unix) - then you should do as marco implied: use Unix/BaseUnix + An imitation of libc (general) - then you must implement a new unit, the above ones are for Unices only. + A cross-platform uniform pascal API - Then you should stick to sysutils/strutils/dateutils etc. > For further compatibility it will be > necessary to find compromises between my coding style, and the style > used by the FPC community. E.g. I prefer to prefix all my units with an > "u", so that the base names remain available for procedures or > variables. I also use upper case characters in the unit names, what may > not be appreciated by users from the Unix world. As a compromise it may > be possible to use a "lib" prefix, but this may conflict with existing > library names (libz...). Any ideas? You can name the unit identifier with uppercase characters, but not the filename. Filenames lowercase only, please. As for prefixes: for a compression/decompression set of units, I would use dc or cd as prefix. If it is 'archiving' in general, 'ar' seems best suited. And if you want a 'virtual file system', use vfs. Just don't use anything conflicting with other prefixes: lib, z, db, im, sys. If we can agree on an implementation for archive handling that can be considered a standard implementation for FPC (i.e. distributed with the FCL), 'fp' can (and should) be used. Naming a unit with 'u' standard does not seem useful to me, but this is a matter of taste. In general, in Delphi, I use only 4 fixed prefixes: fra for Frames frm for Forms dm for DataModules mgr for Manager classes. All other files are assumed to be units. (projects/packages have distinct extensions anyway) Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
