On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:57:32AM +0100, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > This is not to start a flame war, but would you care to explain: > > > >> * Lazarus has much better Packages than Delphi's dumb packages. > > > > I'd like to port a Delphi app wich uses package based plugins and as > > far as I know there is no way I can do that with FPC/Lazarus? > > Indeed, because using packages as a plugin system is abusing packages: > packages have no well defined and stable abi being usable from any > language thus they are not the right choose for a good plugin system.
Well, that is the whole point of packages, a higher level (pascal) plugin concept. Personally I think though that the Delphi like design time packages will never work for Lazarus. Why? Simply because Delphi has a controlled, small amount of versions. _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
