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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] dynamic package support
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> Hans-JÃrg Vasold wrote:
>
> > for a long time support for loading packages at runtime was "planned > > for
> > later versions".
> >
> > But now i can not find that this is planned anymore. Will FreePascal
> > support dynamic packages in future or not.
>
> http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Detailed_2.1.0_branch_todo
>
> However, it had quite low priority the last years because dyn. loaded > packages
> for a dynamic moving project like fpc with daily snapshots are a real > problem.
> As soon as one unit interface changes, all dependend packages must be
> recompiled anyways. And usually there are only 1-2 fpc projects running > at the
> same time on a system so main memory savings are little.
Unless you have a _good_ build tool. Porting want ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/want/ ) could help.
On the other hand, for people who use FPC to develop end-user apps, it makes
sense: they will normally not change their installed FPC every 2 months.
That's why i ask. We have a large inhouse application (ERP, paper document processing, document managemen server), written mostly in Delphi. The ERP Part is build on the top of tiopf ( http://www.techinsite.com.au/ ). We have started porting the tiopf framework and our application but this makes no sense unless dynamic package loading is supported, so we have stopped our activities.
cu Hans-Joerg
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