On 2010-07-01 12:10, Reimar Grabowski wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:19:34 +0200
Mattias Gaertner<[email protected]> wrote
You could have asked the fpc team or put it into one of the many free
repositories. If you put something into lazarus examples then lazarus users
expect a reason for downloading 650KB extra. If the above is the only reason,
then you should remove it.
+1
And the whole thread has nothing to do with lazarus at all.
Actually, it does --quite a bit.
It all started off with how we could come up with a code formatter (plus
refactoring tools etc.) that uses a parser codebase that did not have to
be written/maintained separately.
It turned out that, in its current shape, FPC wasn't suitable for such
use due to its monolithic nature, so we discussed --briefly-- what could
be done about that (i.e. ways to refactor FPC code in such a way that
downstream projects could re-use its modules).
Now, the discussion has moved on to whether --while doing all that-- it
would be a good idea to provide infrastructure for other expansion (such
as other lang back-ends).
Even though these can come across as nothing to do with Lazarus, they
actually are --if you consider the fact that here in Lazarus list people
are focused on writing applications, i.e. not compiler develeopment,
anything that can expand/help with that purpose belongs to this list's
very domain.
Is it possible to continue the discussion somewhere else, please?
Personally, I'd think it'd be mistake to do that.
I would, OTOH, very much appreciate if you could spare some time and
contribute towards future direction.
Cheers,
Adem
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