Re: [fpc-pascal] fpcmake packaging

2020-09-26 Thread Ben Grasset via fpc-pascal
What you want is FPMake, not FPCMake. FPCMake is just a generator of GNU makefiles. As Michael said elsewhere though, FPMake is an API designed specifically for compiling FPC programs, basically. You write a program using the API, put it in a file that should always be called "fpmake.pp", and then

Re: [fpc-pascal] Buffer size for TCP DNS queries in netdb

2020-09-26 Thread Noel Duffy via fpc-pascal
On 26/09/20 9:07 pm, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: On Sat, 26 Sep 2020, Noel Duffy via fpc-pascal wrote: To restate the question, is 64k too much overhead for DNS queries? That overhead would be present on all queries, regardless of whether UDP or TCP was used. I would then pre

Re: [fpc-pascal] Buffer size for TCP DNS queries in netdb

2020-09-26 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
On Sat, 26 Sep 2020, Noel Duffy via fpc-pascal wrote: Hi all, I've spent some time this past couple of weeks reading through the DNS resolver code in netdb and poring over RFCs that specify the protocol with a view to adding support for additional resource record queries. Things like TXT,

Re: [fpc-pascal] basic question on begin, end;

2020-09-26 Thread Bernd Oppolzer via fpc-pascal
Am 25.09.2020 um 22:16 schrieb James Richters via fpc-pascal: I think that’s a GREAT quote from Niklaus Wirth, and I agree with that whole heartedly… programs should be readable by humans… otherwise do all your programming in assembly language… the whole POINT of a hi level language is to ma

[fpc-pascal] Buffer size for TCP DNS queries in netdb

2020-09-26 Thread Noel Duffy via fpc-pascal
Hi all, I've spent some time this past couple of weeks reading through the DNS resolver code in netdb and poring over RFCs that specify the protocol with a view to adding support for additional resource record queries. Things like TXT, SOA, and so forth. I'm using netdb from fpc 3.2.0 as the s

Re: [fpc-pascal] basic question on begin, end;

2020-09-26 Thread James Richters via fpc-pascal
I think that’s a GREAT quote from Niklaus Wirth, and I agree with that whole heartedly… programs should be readable by humans… otherwise do all your programming in assembly language… the whole POINT of a hi level language is to make it readable by humans… not computers. I can’t stand trying to mud