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!
>
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