David Lyon wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
As far as I'm concerned, this is an absolute must for inclusion in
Lazarus
by default. It would ensure that lazarus covers all areas of modern
development. (if such a thing exists...)
When I made my "modern" comment, I actually meant it with students in
mind. Who sometimes hear that pascal is an "old" language.
So saying "modern" implies that it is like Python or C# or Java etc..
Having XML/RPC/Webservices inbuilt would be a good step.....
The other big issue, something that delphi suffers from bigtime, is
package-management.
Having worked with Perl, they really do a wonderful job of package
management.
That is, if you want say, a ups library, type in "ppm search ups". It
gives you a list of modules. To install one, you say "install 2"
(install the second module on the list). Bingo, it now works....
Being open source, Lazarus really lends itself to doing the same
thing. That's an example of a really "modern" feature.
This one just takes time to implement, but perl does it really nicely.
In delphi, it can take so long to find code to do something. They are
way behind perl in that respect. So it is an opportunity I believe...
AFAICT there are two issues here;
1) package management is currently being developed under FPC (see fppkg
and fpmkunit and http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPMake). It will consist of
a "repository" with downloadable packages for FPC. This could be
extended easily in the near future for Lazarus. But it will be a long
way still.
2) Lazarus only supports static packages. So installing a package would
always require to recompile Lazarus. I have no idea what the progress on
this topic is. Perhaps the wiki has something on it, or someone from
core can comment.
Darius
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