[fpc-devel] bug report 20473: Please add a directive to define string=utf8string

[Martin Schreiber]

On Friday 14 October 2011 14.19:35 Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 10/14/2011 10:30 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> > BTW2, the Lazarus IDE has big problems with the lack of dynamically
> > loadable packages, which still are *not* supplied by FPC. This will
> > possibly make impossible above separation between the IDE
> > implementation and FPC progress. Wouldn't it be much more important to
> > improve the package support, before experimenting with new Delphi
> > features?
> 
> Of course, Dephi-type runtime  packages (i.e. DLLs / so's  specially
> crafted to be only used by programs done in the same language and using
> the same libraries) are a desirable feature (e.g. to do "plugins" in
> closed source projects), I feel that it's not a big lack regarding the
> IDE. (At least in Linux) re-compiling the IDE is done in a few seconds,
> so adding/deleting/replacing static packages is no hurdle.
> 
Ever tried to implement a form or any function which uses dynamic types or 
common application elements in a dll/so?

Martin