Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) a écrit:
On 29 May 2004 at 17:25, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Waldek Hebisch wrote:
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I do not understand why you press for very short name. Such name is typically meanigless (for me "cgp" is meanigless),
Compile (with) GNU Pascal.
Or, Compiler for GNU Pascal.
I had understood that the problem to solve with gp is that the automake feature is now included as a large bunch at the end of the compiler driver gpc.exe, and that this causes large maintenance problems for every change of gcc major release. This forbids to merge pascal into the gcc main line, and to use gcc.exe as the compiler driver like for other gcc languages, after a minor arrangement with gcc maintainers to add pascal as a recogized language. gp was created to separate the automake problem from the remaining tasks of the compiler. So what about a two step process: - use gp until the compiler driver can be merged in gcc (soon ?) - rename gp to gpc afterwards. This will be somewhat incompatible with some makefiles, but the final result is logical, simple, and natural for everybody. The incompatible changes to makefiles will be minor: gpc -- automake --> gpc any beginner will prefer that, this is what all do ! gpc -c --> gcc -c like for any other gcc language choice of proper compiler is with extension
Am I overlooking something ? This is the same as the relationship between gpp (g++) and gcc (but where the difference is only in the linking stage) ?
Maurice