[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 windows
> > >>> 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 part
> 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.

Daniël