On Wed, 11 May 2016, Maciej Izak wrote:
2016-05-11 13:46 GMT+02:00 Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org>:
Anything the compiler needs *must* be in the system unit. The compiler
should only assume the system unit, possibly objpas or macpas or so.
All the rest should remain out of the RTL, which should be as small as
possible. So rtl-generics is your best bet. Even the classes unit is better
outside the rtl, but I think Marco is reluctant to remove it.
I have remarked on this before: this tight dependency you are creating is
very worrying.
FPC team is very selective and with double standards and that is very
worrying.
There are no double standards ?
For example fgl module is part of RTL just because is usefully
for Sven for testing purposes (! that is curious).
Where is that written ? As far as I know, it is only there because classes
is there, and classes has some define to allow it to be compiled with fgl.
There is no reason in keeping that module in RTL
As said, I think classes may be moved as well, and then fgl may be moved as
well.
but is in RTL because we have double, selective
and irrational standards.
No, this is not so. See above.
The rtl needs to contain whatever is necessary to compile the compiler.
No more, no less.
Generics.* is absolute other category of module
with base and complex support for *any* stuff related to generics + has
better testing purposes than fgl.
Please just don't add Generics.* into FPC as package. :/
Nevertheless, that is what is going to happen.
There should not be double standards.
If the consequence is that the fgl unit should move as well: No problem with
that.
Michael.
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