On Sunday, November 9, 2014, Dmitry Boyarintsev <skalogryz.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Juha Manninen <juha.mannine...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','juha.mannine...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Tomas Hajny <xhaj...@hajny.biz >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','xhaj...@hajny.biz');>> wrote: >> > If you mean that FPC itself should use a JSON file for generating the >> > help, that doesn't sound like a good idea to me (see below). >> >> I think it is a good idea if only somebody implemented it. It is not a >> trivial thing to implement of course. >> It seems Dmitry is not working towards a patch either so very likely >> this will never happen. >> > > Pardon me, but I actually opposed the idea to put any kind of changes to > FPC help system. > My reasoning - it would be an additional and annoying burden to fpc-team. > As bug reports showing, help is not in sync with compiler features already. > > The suggestion was to have a separate machine-readable file description > (that could be updated separately from the compiler), so the IDE would be > up-to-date on the compiler features. > Which end up in this package: http://wiki.freepascal.org/cmdlinecfg > > thanks, > Dmitry >
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