[gentoo-dev] Thinking Ahead: thoughts on pascal stuff

[gentoo-dev] Thinking Ahead: thoughts on pascal stuff

[Chris White]

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All,

~    I recently noticed fpc (free pascal compiler) in the tree, took
interest in it, and am now actively maintaining it.  During this
process, a few things came into play:

1) The idea of a new dev-pascal category
2) A pascal herd
3) Getting some more pascal stuff into the tree
4) A possible new keyword added to make.conf called
PFLAGS/PASCAL_FLAGS/PASFLAGS/WHATEVER_BEGINS_WITH_P_AND_CAN_BE_UPPERCASED

Which leads to the following:

In regards to #1: need to see what the overall impression is on that
In regards to #2: need to see if there's people that would be
interested in joining this new herd
In regards to #3: depends on #1 and #2
In regards to #4: same here, see what the overal impression is.  I
mainly propose this as, with C[XX]FLAGS, I'm sure that people would
want the most control possible over the output flags.

At this point it's merely an up in the air issue.  I'd like to see
what overall impressions are before I go and do anything with it.  I'm
also asking that anyone with interest for helping in #2 to please
contact me off the list.  Thanks ahead of time for any comments!

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Thinking Ahead: thoughts on pascal stuff

[George Shapovalov]

Hi Chris.

I'd put #1 and really defining:
just how many packages are talking about here? 
For what I know about there wouldn't be that much. BTW, there is gpc as 
well ;), which is gcc based and is striving to be as much standards compliant 
as possible (Standard Pascal, Extended pascal and few more recent additions).

Overall for the packages I am aware of (that'd be gpc and fpc in the tree 
right now, possibly grx and one or two other libs to be added later) I am not 
so sure there is a need for a separate category or a herd. Right now it 
should go under lang-misc (herd), which I created specifically for variety of 
lang-related but scattered in belonging packages. However if you can think of 
5-7+ packages to populate new category (bear in mind, according to present 
agreement gpc and fpc should stay under dev-lang, Pascal related pacjages 
which are not compilers (libs or other stuff) would then go under dev-pascal) 
and are willing to take on active maintainership of the category and head the 
herd, I say go right ahead ;).

George

On Friday 20 August 2004 20:58, Chris White wrote:
> All,
>
> ~    I recently noticed fpc (free pascal compiler) in the tree, took
> interest in it, and am now actively maintaining it.  During this
> process, a few things came into play:
>
> 1) The idea of a new dev-pascal category
> 2) A pascal herd
> 3) Getting some more pascal stuff into the tree
> 4) A possible new keyword added to make.conf called
> PFLAGS/PASCAL_FLAGS/PASFLAGS/WHATEVER_BEGINS_WITH_P_AND_CAN_BE_UPPERCASED
>
> Which leads to the following:
>
> In regards to #1: need to see what the overall impression is on that
> In regards to #2: need to see if there's people that would be
> interested in joining this new herd
> In regards to #3: depends on #1 and #2
> In regards to #4: same here, see what the overal impression is.  I
> mainly propose this as, with C[XX]FLAGS, I'm sure that people would
> want the most control possible over the output flags.
>
> At this point it's merely an up in the air issue.  I'd like to see
> what overall impressions are before I go and do anything with it.  I'm
> also asking that anyone with interest for helping in #2 to please
> contact me off the list.  Thanks ahead of time for any comments!
>
> --
> Chris White <chriswhite@gentoo.org>
> ------------------------
> Sound | Video | Security
> ChrisWhite @ irc.freenode.net


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Thinking Ahead: thoughts on pascal stuff

[Spider]

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Chris White <chriswhite@gentoo.org> wrote:

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> All,
> 
> ~    I recently noticed fpc (free pascal compiler) in the tree, took
> interest in it, and am now actively maintaining it.  During this
> process, a few things came into play:
> 
> 1) The idea of a new dev-pascal category
> 2) A pascal herd
> 3) Getting some more pascal stuff into the tree


> 4) A possible new keyword added to make.conf called
> PFLAGS/PASCAL_FLAGS/PASFLAGS/WHATEVER_BEGINS_WITH_P_AND_CAN_BE_UPPERC
> ASED
heh, this would be good. :)


Personally, I have fairly strong feelings for Pascal, topped with a lot
of previous experience with the language, some minor experience with the
fpc toolchain, but, sadly, not much time that I can spend on it.


But, i'll be peeking curiously and poking stuff to see if it beeps ;)

//Spider


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