[fpc-devel] dynamic package support

[Florian Klaempfl]

Hans-Jörg Vasold wrote:

> for a long time support for loading packages at runtime was "planned for 
> later versions".
> 
> But now i can not find that this is planned anymore. Will FreePascal 
> support dynamic packages in future or not.

http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Detailed_2.1.0_branch_todo

However, it had quite low priority the last years because dyn. loaded 
packages for a dynamic moving project like fpc with daily snapshots are 
a real problem. As soon as one unit interface changes, all dependend 
packages must be recompiled anyways. And usually there are only 1-2 fpc 
projects running at the same time on a system so main memory savings are 
little.