Am Dienstag, den 12.07.2005, 12:01 +0300 schrieb Rimgaudas Laucius: > Hello,
Hi, > 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. Since my IDE is JEdit I'm not sure, but each IDE for pascal I used in the past had a key combination for inserting the compiler switches in the code. Wasn't it CTRL-I-I in Delphi? > 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> > > What do you think about this? If you're a teacher or the like and want to have full documentation in your source files you might wan't to consider literate programming. There are many tools out there, one of them I personally like for writing documentation centric code is funnelweb. This way you can produce nice documentation containing the well formatted code and anything belonging to one source project and on the other hand you can produce nicely formatted source code and even a makefile for compiling. I don't like the idea of having XML files as a basis. But If you do, how about writing en extension to the IDE or Lazarus and the necessary converters as a teaching project? Marc _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
