[fpc-devel] Filectrl and fileutil should move from LCL to FCL

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Wed, 24 May 2006 19:33:24 +0200
> Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> > peter green wrote:
> > > sorry it seems i was mistaken, it seems to be a mixed visual and
> > > non-visual unit :( But some of the stuff in there is pretty damn usefull
> > > to non-lazarus apps.
> > >
> >
> > Filectrl contains basic gui stuff so I don't see a use but Fileutil
> > could be even move to rtl I guess.
>
> FileUtil is only tested and written for lazarus platforms, so I guess some
> functions are not RTL ready.
> The platform independent functions could be moved to the rtl.
> The unit itself should stay in the LCL. From time to time new functions are
> added.

Also, there is a lot of overlap with the sysutils unit.
Some of it due to the fact that SysUtils was not complete
when Lazarus was started...

Michael.