Date: 26 Aug 2001 17:37:55 -0000 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/30110: Developers handbook/tools: updated information Message-ID: <20010826173755.1224.qmail@bluerondo.a.la.turk>
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>Number: 30110
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Developers handbook/tools: updated information
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Aug 26 10:50:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Rahul Siddharthan
>Release: FreeBSD 4.4-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
There is some slightly outdated info in the "tools" section of
the developers' handbook, which says there are no Pascal
compilers and no IDE's on FreeBSD.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Patch for developers-handbook/tools/chapter.sgml
*** chapter.sgml Sun Aug 26 19:29:36 2001
--- chapter.sgml.new Sun Aug 26 19:32:36 2001
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*** 262,277 ****
are rather unforgiving languages, and best suited to more
experienced programmers; Pascal, on the other hand, was
designed as an educational language, and is quite a good
! language to start with. Unfortunately, FreeBSD doesn't have
! any Pascal support, except for a Pascal-to-C converter in the
! ports.</para>
<para>As the edit-compile-run-debug cycle is rather tedious when
using separate programs, many commercial compiler makers have
produced Integrated Development Environments
(<acronym>IDE</acronym>s for short). FreeBSD does not have an
! <acronym>IDE</acronym> as such; however it is possible to use Emacs
for this purpose. This is discussed in <xref
linkend="emacs">.</para>
</sect2>
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are rather unforgiving languages, and best suited to more
experienced programmers; Pascal, on the other hand, was
designed as an educational language, and is quite a good
! language to start with. FreeBSD doesn't have any Pascal support
! in the base system, but the GNU Pascal compiler (gpc) is
! available in the ports.</para>
<para>As the edit-compile-run-debug cycle is rather tedious when
using separate programs, many commercial compiler makers have
produced Integrated Development Environments
(<acronym>IDE</acronym>s for short). FreeBSD does not have an
! <acronym>IDE</acronym> as such (though some, such as kdevelop,
! are in the ports); however it is possible to use Emacs
for this purpose. This is discussed in <xref
linkend="emacs">.</para>
</sect2>
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*** 1615,1622 ****
have.
<footnote>
! <para>At least, not unless you pay out very large sums of
! money.</para>
</footnote>
However, it is possible to set up your own environment. It
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have.
<footnote>
! <para>Some IDEs now exist, though; for example, kdevelop, in
! the ports.</para>
</footnote>
However, it is possible to set up your own environment. It
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