[Lazarus] Q: Compiler features as a service to Lazarus

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2015, Sven Barth wrote:

> Am 24.11.2015 10:05 schrieb "Michael Van Canneyt" <michael at freepascal.org>:
>>
>> And I think you highly exaggerate the amount of time it takes for Mattias
> to enable new features in the IDE codetools. If he is aware of a new
> feature, it generally is added to the IDE very quickly.
>>
>> On the whole, I tend to see the current situation as a plus, rather than
> a minus.
>
> Plus there are no services of the compiler you could ask. The compiler is
> highly integrated and not even the textmode IDE - which has the compiler
> statically compiled - in can do this.

Exactly. That was the gist of my statement that

"The compiler structure is currently entirely unsuitable for this purpose."

Michael.