Hello, i had in mind something like unified project format for all pascal's IDEs. Open XML formats are popular in open source world now. But i do not think this idea were anymore.
> > 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 _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
