cgp? (was: GP ;-)

[Grant Jacobs]

At 5:25 PM +0200 29/5/04, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
>Compile (with) GNU Pascal.
>
>>  and as I
>>  wrote hard to search for. I would say that a person who do not
>>  want to type three additional characters in program name is
>>  likely to drop Pascal for a language where `begin' is
>>  repleced by a single character.

:-)

>  > For me `gpmake' sounds almost perfect. I have a checked various
>>  languages and most do not try to use very short names. In fact
>>  I have a bunch of `xmake' programs which either generate makefiles
>>  or work as make replacement for a given language.

This is little too close to gmake for my comfort - in fact I actually 
read it as gmake at first and had to go back and read it again. 
Possibly too easy to mistype too?

>As I said, I don't think "make" is a good thing to think of for a
>*normal* Pascal programmer. We're, of course, deep in the internals,
>but a normal programm doesn't want to (and shouldn't have to) think
>about when a compiler recreates which files. It should just produce
>a correct executable.

You could try keep it all within gpc as so not to generate another 
name that could conflict. Make gpc itself a small program that 
manages whatever programs do the actual work. Have users pass options 
to this to invoke the appropriate action either as a '-' option, e.g.

gpc -make <file(s)>

or take it a bit further in the spirit of make install, make clean:

gpc compile <options>
gpc link <options>
gpc make <options>
gpc clean <options>
gpc <options>

etc. (with a default of compile to make it compatible with previous 
use, as in the last example)

Pesonally I like the latter.
No new name to remember, no new name to conflict with existing one, 
its obvious its part of gpc and you've got a wrapper you can plant 
anything in the future under.

If people are worried about typing, provide short-hand alternatives:

gpc c <options>
gpc l <options>
gpc cl <options>
gpc m <options>

If you must make it separate, I'd personally refer gpc-make or 
gpcmake to associate it with gpc and make it more distinct from gmake.

As for cgp. Ugh. Sorry ;-)

(btw, the -noprebind does the trick Adrian, thanks.)

Cheers,

Grant
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