[fpc-devel] FP 2.4 questions

[Fabio Dell'Aria]

Ok but whitout the full package support many companies will never uses
Freepascal because is common think split big application in modules or
simply sell extra application plugins.

What do you think about?

2007/12/26, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org>:
> Fabio Dell'Aria schrieb:
> > Ok,but if time is the only problem then why do not simple add the
> > feature in the official and definitive 2.4 roadmap and try to add it
> > in the next 6/12/24 months?
>
> It increases maintainance time for all future releases and the current
> team can't spend more time in release building and maintainance.
>
> >
> > Is also possible add it as undocumented feature (as generics in 2.2)
> > in the next 2.4 version and finish its implementation and testing in
> > the 2.6 version.
> >
> > 2007/12/26, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org>:
> >> Fabio Dell'Aria schrieb:
> >>> Why is not possible add the package support as is on Delphi (using
> >>> Rtl.bpl, Vcl.bpl ...)?
> >> Time?
> >>
> >>> Only if my project is compiled with packajes I must use all base
> >>> packages, otherwise I can continue to compile my project as today just
> >>> do Freepascal.
> >>>
> >>> 2007/12/26, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara <pascalive at bol.com.br>:
> >>>> Daniël Mantione wrote:
> >>>>>> Did i miss something, technically? Is necessary to compile with rtl
> >>>>>> packages to distribute custom packages?
> >>>>> Yes. Well, unless you want the RTL statically linked into each
> >>>>> package, which will not work in a compatible way due the one
> >>>>> heap/multiple heaps issues.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> There is a solution though: Distribute the rtl in source code form and
> >>>>> compile it on installation. This could also be an advantage for
> >>>>> setting up cross compilation environments. But don't get excited yet:
> >>>>> We may or may not move to such a system in the future.
> >>>>>
> >>>> Thanks for the info. With this picture, i'm in favor of staying like is
> >>>> today. No packages.
> >>>>
> >>>> Luiz
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Best regards...

Fabio Dell'Aria.