On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Rimgaudas Laucius wrote:
Hello,
the problem is that IDEs like FP and others have no exact
place where to store compiler configuration switches and
other program (project) related info. For examle if user set
switches in FP, they effect all opened units, so there is no
possibility to configure each unit differently if you do not use
directives. That is problem for less experienced users, like students.
I want to propose an idea of implementation alternative
source format able to carry all additional information.
This can be open format realized using xml. It will not make problems
with conversion to native "pas" format. Additional argument that FPC
will support UTF-8 soon.
Something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<fpc>
<version>1.0</version>
<switches target="debug">-viewh -g -Cotir -Sd</switches>
<switches target="release">-viewh -O2 -Sd</switches>
<todo>There is nothing to do</todo>
<target>win32</target>
...
<body>
begin
writeln('hi');
readln;
end.
</body>
</fpc>
What do you think about this?
This is something for an IDE, not for the compiler itself.
An IDE is free to store it's sources as it wants.
Parsing XML adds a lot of processing overhead, so should not be
supported in the compiler. What is more, most relevant
command-line options can be specified with directives, so you don't
really need the 'extra' info in the compiler sources.
But if you want to add such an extension to the IDE, please do.
Michael.
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