[fpc-devel] FP 2.4 questions

[Florian Klaempfl]

Luiz Americo Pereira Camara schrieb:
> Daniël Mantione wrote:
>>
>>
>> Op Wed, 26 Dec 2007, schreef Fabio Dell'Aria:
>>
>>> Why is so hard deide to add package support?
>>>
>>> Iss only a new  feature, if one do not need it can simply do not use it!
>>
>> It would require to ship the rtl as dynamic library, which is unstable
>> in its interface, causing "DLL hell".
>>
> 
> It would not be possible to ship the compiler and rtl as is today  and
> let the user/programmer decide if his project will use packages?
> 
> Or necessarily, if the change is done, the only option will be use
> packages instead of unit files in all projects,  including fpc?
> 
> If there will be a option i'm in favor of shipping fpc as is today and
> let the programmer decide if will use or not.

This is possible, but it simply doubles the size of the installer.