2012.01.21 Noah Silva
[email protected]

This is the preliminary alpha release of the source code for PasViz.
Some of the code (Namely, the PasParse unit and dependencies) are based on
code from a previous project by another author, called USGParse.

In an attempt to modernize some of the code, convert it to FreePascal, and get
it running on MacOS X, many things have been changed, and some bugs have been
introduced (or made more apparent).

The largest problem at present is a memory leak in PasParse or TestUtilsLite unit due to conversion of the memory management from a custom method to standard methods in the legacy units.  For more information, see the Issue List on GitHub.

In order to enable the code to run for now with fewer crashes, the calls to
DropParsers have been commented out, which will leak memory.  (This is mainly
an academic issue, since the program will release the memory anyway when it
terminates).  Unfortunately, there is still an issue where some complex
projects can still cause it to crash.

The original license of PasParse and related files is Public Domain, and we have received explicit permission from the author ([email protected]) to modify and redistribute the code as we wee fit.

The original legacy code (and some updated version of the PAscal parser) may be found at: http://semi.gurroa.cz/AltUtil/Source


I am releasing my code and modifications as GPLv2 as of now.

Please visit the project's web site at http://www.galapagosssoftware.com/developer-tools/pasviz for further information and pre-compiled binaries.