Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
Waldek Hebisch wrote:
What would it take to integrate GNU Pascal with the rest of GCC?
Short answer: more developers (and testers).
IMHO you would get more testers (users) automatically if GPC would be included into the GCC repository. And it would be much easier to contribtueif the code could be checked out via CVS and so there would be also a better chance to recruit more developers .
I've heard this claim, but I see no evidence. Getting the source code by HTTP is no more complicated than by CVS (in fact, it's much easier for most of us, myself included, even if it may take a second longer because a few more files are included).
Building from a proper distribution is much easier than from CVS sources (my experience with other CVS packages is abysmal -- it took me over a year until I managed to build a CVS Bison at all, and I had tried it on several different systems, including a current Debian system).
Getting patches to a slightly older (alpha/beta) version is *really not* a big deal. I can handle some changed contexts, renamed identifiers etc.
Frank