Am 09.09.2010 14:02, schrieb Willibald Krenn: > >> This is why there is no work on a packages system for FPC: there >> are simply too much different versions around. While Delphi has at >> most one release per year, FPC/Lazarus has more or less every day a >> new version. > > Well, but not that much stable releases, I suppose. :)
No. > >> A package compiled for FPC/Lazarus built from todays sources will >> mostly not work with a program compiled from yesterday sources. > > Even if you divide up your code into packages (Delphi ones), you are > not forced to compile with packages 'enabled'. Hence daily builds can > stay perfectly static as is. True but building releases with optional dyn. has another disadvantage: they increase heavily the distribution size and people are already complaining now about download size. > But I guess, my main motivation on this is "fun on hacking a compiler > feature" ;-) That's a very good point :) However I fear implementing packages is one of the less fun features. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
