On 11 Feb 2013, at 10:04, Sven Barth wrote:
> On 11.02.2013 09:55, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>
>>
>> As I've said before: I think the compiler and RTL should remain
>> Makefile-based (whether or not that is in addition to fpmake support for
>> them, doesn't matter to me), to make porting to new platforms easier.
>> "make cycle" is a very nice and easy test, and it would be quite
>> annoying if fpmkunit and all of it dependencies would have to be
>> compilable/working and installed before that could be performed. It
>> would also make the bootstrapping process in general much more complex.
>
> Then we would still have the problem of the outdated tools. Maybe we could
> write Pascal based substitutes for them that only need to handle the cases of
> compiler/rtl compilation...
The only problem I'm aware of is cp copying the read-only attribute under
Windows and refusing to overwrite such files, resulting in problems when
installing examples from the packages dir from a non-exported svn checkout over
a previous install. That problem does not affect either the compiler or the RTL.
Jonas
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