[fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Marco van de Voort:

> > Florian Klaempfl schrieb:
> > >>> Ok, I'll ask next time this person to spent the weekend to fix wind=
ows
> > >>> installer scripts and assign to it the still open web download page,
> > >>> installer and install package bugs.
> > >> I was never for the download system in the first place remember? In =
my
> > >> opinion it can be a huge binary.
> > > =

> > > I meant only the current download pages.
> > =

> > Add: Each additional downloadble package increases deployment pain
> > significantly. Just look at 9500, this problem exists for aeons, nobody
> > cares.
> =

> Probably, but is that really the problem with packages? Packages are a pa=
rt
> of Delphi compat, and have been explicitely on the 2.x roadmap for years.
> And now we cancel it because the linux install installs the demoes in the
> wrong place, if not manually fixed?

As far as I am concerned, nothing is against the implementation of =

packages as long as it is non-intrusive to FPC users and FPC developers. =

Putting something on the roadmap does not automatically mean it gets =

implemented, fore major features there has to be someone who has an =

interrest in that feature before it get implemented. Until now, it hasn't =

been the case.

Dani=EBl