Re: [fpc-pascal] Questions on Documentation

2005-10-10 Thread Elio Cuevas Gómez
El Lun 10 Oct 2005 19:19, Bob Richards escribió: > > I miss the old DOS IDE of Borland-of-Old; FP is somewhat OK, and Lazarus is > way too much for system programming. But that's no real problem, VI does me > just fine! Why don't you try FP? It's included in the FPC distribution IIRC. But i'd rat

[fpc-pascal] Questions on Documentation

2005-10-10 Thread Bob Richards
Hi All: I am new to this list, but not new to pascal programming. I have been writing pascal code since Turbo pascal Version 3.0. I have installed Free Pascal Ver. 2.0.0, running it on a Linux WorkStation, and am writing CGI apps which run on a Linux server. I love FPC! It keeps me honest, and

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPCUnit article/tutorial online.

2005-10-10 Thread L505
> I personally wouldn't recommend using FPCunit in all cases. > The purpose of the article is to show that it is present in FPC for those who > want to use such a technology. > Exactly, and I think this discussion has helped me see where I can start experimenting it first, and what cases it woul

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPCUnit article/tutorial online.

2005-10-10 Thread L505
> debugger (I still don't know how to use it effectively with Free Pascal > and in Lazarus I usually keep it disabled :) A failing test usually Same here, I may be speaking from small project experience though, rather than huge/large level project experience. I think I may use the debugger more o

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPCUnit article/tutorial online.

2005-10-10 Thread Dean Zobec
L505 ha scritto: Since I don't exactly know what test frameworks are, even after reading about them for the past few years, I'm going to ask some risky questions. This is not a flame thrower attempt at the test framework advocates, I'm just trying to understand what exactly they do, from a "n

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPCUnit article/tutorial online.

2005-10-10 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Tony Pelton wrote: > >> i started to write a rather lengthy reply to this note, and realized i >> was starting to rant. >> >> so i'm gonna shorten my reply up quite a bit. >> >> i'm a java web app programmer by trade. i use Pascal for fun stu

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPCUnit article/tutorial online.

2005-10-10 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, L505 wrote: Since I don't exactly know what test frameworks are, even after reading about them for the past few years, I'm going to ask some risky questions. This is not a flame thrower attempt at the test framework advocates, I'm just trying to understand what exactly t

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPCUnit article/tutorial online.

2005-10-10 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Tony Pelton wrote: i started to write a rather lengthy reply to this note, and realized i was starting to rant. so i'm gonna shorten my reply up quite a bit. i'm a java web app programmer by trade. i use Pascal for fun stuff. up until a couple of years ago, i went throug