On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, George Birbilis wrote:
> > > > We need a version system. > > > > > > That's not something "we" need, but which most OS'es need > > (and don't > > > provide, except for hacks like symlinks or different filenames). > > > Moreover, it doesn't really solve much unless you like having 20 > > > different versions of the same shared library on your system (which > > > would more or less defeat the purpose of saving space, although it > > > could still save memory if more than one FPC program is > > running at the > > > same time). > > > > If I understand well what you mean, Vista has versioning of > > that kind, you can ask to see older versions of any file and > > restore the one you want. A small caveat is that for files > > that don't exist currently anymore (deleted) there's no GUI > > to get them (or one I haven't spotted yet) and you need to > > make a dummy file with same name, then right click it and go > > to Properties, then ask for the older versions (there's a > > special tab for that on the dialog). Not sure if the Basic > > version of Vista has this functionality available (I tried it > > with Vista Ultimate) > > If you meant having many libs of different version exist side-by-side, .NET > runtime supports it, but Win32 itself doesn't Most unixes also have it. The point is that it kind of defeats the purpose. Having 20+ libraries called fpcrtl-xyz.dll (or fpcrtl.so.x.y.z on unixes) defeats the purpose of a shared library: saving disk and (more importantly) memory space by factoring out common code. If we'd know that the fpcrtl.so (or .dll) interface will stay the same in the next 5 years, it makes sense to distribute this. Since the interface changes still wildly, it's a bad idea. Look at Delphi packages: as soon as the interface of a package changes, you must re-compile all the binaries that use it. The same would be true for FPC. I can assure you this is a major headache when distributing apps. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
