[fpc-devel] Delphi-like Packages, Plan

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said:
> [...]
> >         -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.

Then if you have N packages, you need O(N^2) sets of compiled files? Since
modules that have code for late binding are different then for early
binding.

I don't think this is very practical.