> > In short I am saying it saves time for the individuals > trying to add > > targets. > > No, it saves no time in total and is against any OSS spirit: > imagine ten people developing for say the lpc2148 (or any > other not yet supported controller). All of them use the bare > controller and hack the stuff together to get that unknown > controller working and waste a lot of time with this. > > Instead, the first one using a new controller does a proper > set of patches, they are applied to FPC. The other nine save > a lot of time by just using the already implemented lpc2148 > target and might spent the saved time into other new stuff > for FPC ;)
Downside is that embedded users are condemned to use trunk and never a stable release. There are quite a lot of "bosses" around that only want to use stable releases in production. Compiler patches or separate units, if one doesn't want to share code it won't make a difference. My 2 cents, Ludo _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
