[fpc-devel] Delphi-like Packages, Plan

[Sven Barth]

Am 04.10.2010 11:52, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
> In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
>>>> However, at the moment I don't see why this is better than shipping all
>>>> necessary ppl files. BTW: I realize that ppl might be a bad TLA - since
>>>> it probably means "people" for quite a number of ppl ;-)
>>>
>>> Nah. Just wonder if that is necessary, if Delphi .bpl's are not compatible
>>> too eachother anyway.
>>
>> So... what is your suggestion? Keep the platform specific library name?
>
> bpl is fine with me on Windows. On *nix, what did Kylix use? Or maybe .dso ?

I'd not use *.bpl. People might get the idea to use FPC packages with 
Delphi (or the other way round). By using a extension that isn't equal 
to the Delphi ones we might avoid at least some questions about this 
topic. ^^

So I personally would prefer *.ppl (for Pascal Package Library) on every 
platform supporting packages.

Regards,
Sven