On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 9 Jul 2015, Marcos Douglas wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Michael Van Canneyt >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 9 Jul 2015, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have two independent packages. I would like my project to toggle >>>> between either one (but never both at the same time). Both have a unit >>>> with the exact same name, hence both packages can't be added to the >>>> dependency list at the same time. >>>> >>>> Is there a way with the Compiler Options -> Other (or Additions and >>>> Overrides) to include a specific package based on a compiler define? >>>> >>>> eg: >>>> if defined UsePackageA >>>> PackageDependecy.Add(PackageA) >>>> else >>>> PackageDependency.Add(PackageB) >>>> >>>> Well something like that at least. >>> >>> >>> >>> I would even go further, and have a package included or not depending on >>> the >>> OS. >>> Similar, I think it should be possible to include a unit in a package, >>> depending on the OS. >>> >>> In short, a set of conditions for package dependencies and contains >>> lists. >> >> >> I would even go further even more: >> If we have two units with the same name, would be better if were >> possible to create an alias namespace for each unit, like C# does. >> >> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa664765(v=vs.71).aspx >> >> But you, guys, will talk about "an Unit is a namespace" -- we know >> this is true -- and this is not necessary... anyway. > > > This is not correct. > > We have support for dotted unit names. The only thing missing is a namespace > directive.
I know we have support for dotted unit names -- and this is not so important, ie, what the difference between MyUnitName to my.unit.name? -- the real problem, IMHO, is the names collisions between packages. Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
