On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:08:17 +0200
Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:38:24 +0200
> "Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On 16/06/07, Joao Morais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Out of interest... Why did you create a new pascal parser and code
> > > > updater, when CodeTools can already do that plus more for you?
> > >
> > > Because I need it to D5+ as well, and because it was amusing =)
> > >
> > 
> > Ah. :-)
> > I was told that CodeTools was initially designed with Delphi and then
> > integrated into Lazarus.  I still need to test this and see if
> > CodeTools can still be compiled under Delphi.
> 
> They were never developed under Delphi.
> I wrote some small code tools with Delphi, learned that there was
> some misconceptions and started new from scratch. This was years ago,
> and fpc+laz were merely a hobby. I tried to do be Delphi compatible.
> But I never needed them under Delphi, so I never tested the IFDEFs, and
> a year later fpc+laz were good enough and so I only wrote mode
> objfpc, which I liked from the very beginning.

Thanks for the explanation. I saw the ifdefs and though you developed them on 
both fpc and delphi.

Vincent 

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