Could Free Pascal benefit of something like Apache Maven?

Question

Apache Maven is a very popular build and dependency management tool in the Java open source ecosphere. I did some tests to find out if it can handle compiled Free Pascal / D

Answer 1

Sounds like an interesting plan, but the Delphi community (and FPC even more so, I'd imagine!) values libraries as source far more than precompiled libraries. The general consensus is that anyone who uses a binary-only library is a fool, for two reasons: You can't fix any bugs you find in it, and compiler changes will break compatibility.