[lazarus] Text file database as a first step...?

[Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be]

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Peter Vreman wrote:

> > On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 15:10:15 +0200 (CEST)
> > Michael.VanCanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 23 Aug 2003 04:12:27 -0600
> >> > Tom Lisjac <netdxr at adelphia.net> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > > ... But we're still
> >> > > > thinking about a good package format. Maybe a mix between fpcmake
> >> > > > and lazarus package manager would be good, if we can make the
> >> > > > package manager in a command-line version.
> >> >
> >> > Peter Vreman had the same idea and I like the idea too. But in
> >> general,
> >> > fpcmake and the lazarus package system are quite different. fpcmake is
> >> a
> >> > Makefile generator and the other is a graphical dependency manager for
> >> > fpc commands.
> >>
> >> Sounds the same to me ? One is graphical, the other not :-)
> >>
> >> > A Makefile is file based, supports a lot of macros and uses the
> >> > environment vars. Lazarus otoh is package based, supports inheritance
> >> > and no variable depends on external programs.
>
> Package based is better for pascal units. Pascal units don't need the
> Makefile file dependency support. A program that has ppu file knowledge
> can give that information much better.
>
> Having the posibility to run pre- and post-build commands that can do some
> preprocessing/checking will make a package based tool already very
> powerfull to do some more complex tasks

I'm all for it. Like I said, fpcmake is not a must, but a command-line tool
is.

Michael.