Juha Manninen wrote:
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<[email protected]> wrote:
Would there be any mileage in having the compiler output this sort of thing
in XML or some similar formal markup?
Yes, that would be ideal. We discussed it with Lazarus devels.
In July 26 Mattias asked it in FPC devel list. Subject is "compiler
switches machine readable".
Jonas answered that it requires manual maintenance for new options and
I understood he is not happy with the idea. I am planning to write
there later myself.
Noting that you mentioned JSON elsewhere in the thread, I'd have hoped
that something like a -hh option which formalised the various levels of
output text (and also used untranslated English) wouldn't have been too
difficult, the current freeform output could be a derivative.
I'm no great enthusiast of "JSON (or XML) for everything", but I
occasionally have to make remote diagnostic connections to equipment
where things like line-ending/prompt consistency vary by firmware version.
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