[fpc-devel] what fpc is good for?

[Luiz Americo Pereira Camara]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> Dani?l Mantione wrote:
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>>> But I'll leave this up to the Lazarus team. They have talented developers, 
>>> and I'm sure they are brainstorming about ideas to reduce the exe size. 
>>> However, Lazarus developers do the engineering balancing too and weigh exe 
>>> size against anything else.
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>> Another idea is to avoid overlap of features like
>>  - *CriticalSection functions vs SyncObjs
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> Delphi backwards compat.
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Should not this be in fpc side ? (Is not gui related and cross-platform 
widgetsets can have problems implementing it).

>>  - TPairSplitter vs TSplitter
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> Lazarus internal (with previous versions) backwards compat
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>>  - TNoteBook vs TTabControl
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> Afaik Laz internal too.
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>> of course this would be provided as packages for who needs
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> This kind of stuff is easily said, but in practice if you change it, some
> other compability or consistency camp starts complaining. There is a reason
> for nearly every construct.
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Ok.

Luiz