On Sunday, November 9, 2014, Dmitry Boyarintsev <skalogryz.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >
Sorry, my bad. We had a long discussion about this subject, Mattias thought the info about FPC options should be maintained in FPC project. I agreed because it is quite logical and makes sense. Why should help info about FPC options be maintained by some other project? Now I remember you planned this external file + a GUI in a package. I twisted your plan so that the file should be offered to FPC project. Now it seems that my parser could became quite robust if "fpc -h" output is consistent. It can still later be replaced by your file + GUI if it brings extra benefits. We can discuss it later. Juha
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