@Michael and @Marco, Very helpful comments, thank you!
Regarding, > > in subversion. See > http://www.freepascal.org/develop.var > Section 'Other repositories' Yes, found it. (Tex, I thought so (considering the nicely formatted pdf)). - In prog.pdf there is a section about "Compiler and RTL source tree >> structure". Is there some documentation about the (not-mentioned but huge) >> 'package' folder? >> > > No, this is on my todo list (since ages :/ ) No worries, the docu is huge, and I suppose the todo list also ;) I found many interesting infos already and it certainly was a lot of work to write! > the fpmake executables are exactly meant to enable this > github-package-project, without falling back on make. > There are 2 motivations for using fpmake: > 1. Make does not understand dependencies as FPC understands them. > 2. fpmake is pascal code. Anyone writing pascal code can create a fpmake > file, > no extra tools need to be learned. This is the main motivation. > 3. fpmake is more complete and performs a lot of operations which make needs external binaries, which are a maintenance hazard on non *nix Ok. - I would have some remarks but wait if/until I better understand some technical details. It works and is fast and at least I now know the connection between the two 'makers' and some rationals.
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