[fpc-devel] FPC dynamic libraries

[George Birbilis]

> You can't, for Lazarus. You need the classes, that's what you 
> need the plugins for in the first place: to install 
> additional components on the component palette. They must 
> descend from the TComponent which is in the IDE.
> 
> There is no way around it.

If you had an immutable Icomponent interface it could be. The IDE would talk
to the components only using immutable (not-changeable once published)
interfaces (Icomponent, IComponent2, IComponent3 etc.)

> > > Borland's packages are also incompatible between released 
> versions.
> > 
> > Sure, but above you said Borland keeps them compatible.
> 
> With this I mean that they release not so often that it 
> becomes a problem.
> if they would release every 3 weeks, it's a problem, this is obvious.
> 
> Lazarus will have to do the same if they want to have 
> dynamically loadable packages. 
> 

don't take Borland as an example in this case, it's a very bad practice what
they did...

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