[fpc-devel] Delphi-like Packages, Plan

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Willibald Krenn schrieb:

> Here comes my 'official' plan on how I want to implement Delphi-like 
> Package Support for FPC on Win64. Feel free to comment.
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>         -K <File>[ <File>]*
>                         Command line arg to tell fpc to compile
>                         program/dll with runtime package support.

I don't like the Delph all-or-nothing philosophy here. I'd prefer to 
specify the packages, that shall be loaded at runtime, while all other 
packages can be linked into the executable. This would allow to use an 
minimal set of external modules, which are shared by the exe and the 
really self-contained packages.

The same effect could be achieved by a separation of packages into 
(Lazarus-type) static libraries, and packages *designed* for dynamic 
loading (plug-ins...).


Good luck :-)

DoDi