On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:40:34 +0100 Bo Berglund <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:11:23 +0100, Mattias Gaertner > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:16:09 +0100 > >Bo Berglund <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I *have* copied SdpoSerial from the original lazarus components dir > >> into the new lazarus components dir. So what more do I need to do in > >> order to get lazarus find the sdposerial package? > > > >Just open the SdpoSerialLaz.lpk once. > >The "components" directory has no special meaning to the IDE. The > >package can be anywhere on your disk. > > > > Thanks, this solved the problem. But I would *never ever* have thought > that the action of opening a file like this would be "sticky" for the > future.... > What happens if one opens several different same-name lpk files in > different locations just to see what they contain? Will Lazarus then > use the last opened one? Seems very unsafe for the project to me.... Each dependency can be given a minimum and maximum version. So the IDE will automatically open a compatible package when you open a project. And if that is not sufficient you can even give a specific file name (since 0.9.29). Right click in the project inspector on the dependency. > >> I have intentionally NOT *installed* it in any of the Lazarus versions > >> because it does not give me any visual object. But still if I use the > >> original lazarus it manages to find sdposerial, but not with the SVN > >> version. > > > >The IDE saves the locations of the lpk files in its config directory. > > What is the scope of this saving? For the currently open project or > for all future and past projects too? The IDE. So the scope is all projects and packages opened with this IDE. If you open an IDE with another --primary-config-path you will get another set. > >> In Delphi 7 I used to set serach paths for units in my project options > >> thus ensuring that I have full control over which version of common > >> files were used by my application. > >> But I cannot find a corrsponding property in the lazarus project > >> options.... > >> There simply seems to be no place to set project specific paths at > >> all. What good is project options if you cannot set the project search > >> paths???? > > > >The project specific search paths are in the compiler options. But the > >directories of SdpoSerialLaz belong to SdpoSerialLaz, not to your > >project. Just tell the IDE where the SdpoSerialLaz.lpk is and let > >Lazarus handle the search paths automatically. > > Extremely strange that just opening the file will "tell" Lazarus where > the files are for the forseeable future.... It's pretty flexible and comfortable and was done so because of the bad experiences with Delphi. For example sharing projects/packages is much easier. You don't need to adapt any search path. Some people want this system even for units: "Why can't the IDE find a unit? I just opened it!" Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
