[Lazarus] Parser

[Adem]

  On 2010-07-01 12:10, Reimar Grabowski wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:19:34 +0200
> Mattias Gaertner<nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>  wrote
>> You could have asked the fpc team or put it into one of the many free repositories. If you put something into lazarus examples then lazarus users expect a reason for downloading 650KB extra. If the above is the only reason, then you should remove it.
> +1
> And the whole thread has nothing to do with lazarus at all.
Actually, it does --quite a bit.

It all started off with how we could come up with a code formatter (plus 
refactoring tools etc.) that uses a parser codebase that did not have to 
be written/maintained separately.

It turned out that, in its current shape, FPC wasn't suitable for such 
use due to its monolithic nature, so we discussed --briefly-- what could 
be done about that (i.e. ways to refactor FPC code in such a way that 
downstream projects could re-use its modules).

Now, the discussion has moved on to whether --while doing all that-- it 
would be a good idea to provide infrastructure for other expansion (such 
as other lang back-ends).

Even though these can come across as nothing to do with Lazarus, they 
actually are --if you consider the fact that here in Lazarus list people 
are focused on writing applications, i.e. not compiler develeopment, 
anything that can expand/help with that purpose belongs to this list's 
very domain.
> Is it possible to continue the discussion somewhere else, please?
Personally, I'd think it'd be mistake to do that.

I would, OTOH, very much appreciate if you could spare some time and 
contribute towards future direction.

Cheers,

Adem