[fpc-devel] Purpose of "uses ... in"?

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said:
> Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:
> 
> > The cure is far worse than the problem, because it is still trying to 
> > combine 2 systems that are basically incompatible.
> > 
> > Bottom line is: don't use 'in' for the uses clause; use the command-line
> > option to specify the location of the sources.
> 
> Then we could start by immediately flagging all uses of "in" as 
> deprecated, unless e.g. TP7 or Delphi mode is selected. When the users 
> can demonstrate that they still need such a feature, we could think 
> again about other (more compatible) solutions for not yet covered 
> special cases, before dropping it from the FPC syntax.

See http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/porting.pdf paragraph 7 ("avoid paths...")

I originally wrote that in 2003-2004.

Even for portability purposes it often doesn't work, since usually the build
systems  and files for FPC/Lazarus and Delphi differ anyway (and you noticed
the working dir difference)