One thing I would like to add to the discussion is support for the LCL. Dunno if it was explicitly the puurpose to do that already, but I thought I should mention it anyway.
Darius > We (still) use FreePascal quite a bit in our first/second-year education, > in particular, in <PEACH.win.tue.nl>, our Programming Education And > Contest Hosting verification system. > > I was thinking of adding a remote FreePascal service along the following > lines. You go to its web interface, browse for your source files > (possibly a whole zip archive) on your local machine, enter command-line > options, and let our server compile your stuff with a (selectable) > version of fpc (under Linux), then you get back the results (possibly > also in a zip archive). Mabye we can support cross compiles as well. > > Why do this? Because that way people can use/try FreePascal without > installing anything. > > Furthermore, we plan to support several versions of FreePascal in > parallel. That way, it may also be useful to the FreePascal community. > E.g. when diagnosing a problem. > > Here are some questions: > > 1. Do you think this service would be useful? > > 2. Do you think the interface described above is good enough? > Suggestions for refinements would be appreciated. > > 3. Are there any security risks that we may have overlooked? > Of course, we will impose certain limitation to avoid resource > hogging. But maybe there are ways to put together a malicious > source file that makes the compiler misbehave ... > > 4. Whatever else comes to your mind ... > > Best regards, > > Tom Verhoeff > -- > E-MAIL: T.Verhoeff @ TUE.NL | Fac. of Math. & Computing Science > PHONE: +31 40 247 41 25 | Eindhoven University of Technology > FAX: +31 40 247 54 04 | PO Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven > http://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/ | The Netherlands > _______________________________________________ > 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
