[fpc-devel] RTL and Unicode filenames operations.

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, dmitry boyarintsev said:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> > More importantly, the stuff in the FCL depends on the RTL, so stuffing in
> > the FCL is useless since it would need primitives in the RTL to operate on.
> 
> Does it mean, if i provide a FCL package with:
> 
> unit
>   UnicodeFileUtils;
> 
> function FindFirst(const Name: UnicodeString)
> ...
> 
> function IncludeTrailngPathDelimiter(const path: UnicodeString)
> 
> 
> type
>   TFileStreamUnicode = class(THandleStream)
>     constructor Create(const AFileName: UnicodeString)
> 
> etc...
> 
> it would be rejected?

That is not my call, but I won't commit it. Because all this stuff must be
maintained when real solutions come later.

if Lazarus needs a quick fix, they should keep it in own SVN.