I am not sure if this has been proposed, but wouldn't it make life a
lot easier if we considered the 'namespaces' metaphor as something that
resembles to URLs.
Here is an example:
In the project file, I'd like to have these declarations:
namespace Lazarus readonly url 'C:/Program Files/Lazarus';
namespace FPC readwrite url 'C:/Program Files/FPC';
namespace JCL readwrite url '//MyNAS/Pascal Files/Jedi/JCL';
namespace MeObjects readonly url 'https://code.google.com/somepath';
namespace GreatProject readwrite url
'/user:passw...@ftp://ftp.someone.org/somepath';
And, in the units themselves, here is what I'd like to see:
uses
alias Delay namespace Lazarus path 'components\jcf2\Utils\Delay.pas';
alias Calc namespace FPC path 'trunk\ide\fpcalc.pas';
alias Serialization namespace JCL path
'source\windows\JclDebugSerialization.pas';
alias MeConsts namespace MeObjects path 'MeObjects\src\uMeConsts.pas';
which can also be written as:
uses
alias Delay as lazarus.components.jcf2.utils.delay;
alias Calc as fpc.trunk.ide.fpcalc;
alias Serialization as jcl.source.windows.jcldebugserialization;
alias MeConsts as meobjects.meobjects.src.umeconsts;
[here, the last item in the 'as' path is assumed to have the extension
'.pas']
or, without aliases, this way:
uses
lazarus.components.jcf2.utils.delay;
fpc.trunk.ide.fpcalc;
jcl.source.windows.jcldebugserialization;
meobjects.meobjects.src.umeconsts;
Now, there's the 'path with spaces in it' problem. I think we should
solve it the way HTML did.
IOW. let there be %xx characters in the file names and paths [ see
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm ]
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