[fpc-devel] Delphi-like Packages, Plan

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Marco van de Voort schrieb:

>> 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.

Delphi seems not to have problems with the binding of the compiled 
files. What I want is a linker feature, where the required packages can 
be flagged as link-in or keep-external, as far as their dependencies allow.

DoDi