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

[Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be]

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> > >> 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.
> >
> > I forgot one of the most complex things of the Makefile's: the unix-tools
> > you need like install/date/echo/pwd. For every platform we have to collect
> > these tools. The most difficult platform sofar was Windows where we needed
> > native win32 apps.
>
> Maybe we can make some busybox version in FPC to use on non *nix platforms?
>
> > Currently the Makefile doesn't support cygwin. Adding support to the
> > Makefile is not easy because it needs more exceptions to look for
> > install.exe instead of ginstall.exe etc.
>
> And also because of this.
>
> So detect ppc386 source, and if os_source=win32 or go32v2 (and maybe others),
> INSTALL=mybinary -i
> PWD= mybinary -p
>
> etc etc.
> ?

Agreed with all these difficulties. But what is the conclusion ?
Make a complete new tool which does everthing itself,
based on/compatible to the lazarus package tool ?

Michael.