2010/7/26 Adem <listmem...@letterboxes.org>: > 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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