[fpc-devel] bug report 20473: Please add a directive to define string=utf8string

[Michael Schnell]

On 10/14/2011 10:30 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
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> BTW2, the Lazarus IDE has big problems with the lack of dynamically 
> loadable packages, which still are *not* supplied by FPC. This will 
> possibly make impossible above separation between the IDE 
> implementation and FPC progress. Wouldn't it be much more important to 
> improve the package support, before experimenting with new Delphi 
> features?

Of course, Dephi-type runtime  packages (i.e. DLLs / so's  specially 
crafted to be only used by programs done in the same language and using 
the same libraries) are a desirable feature (e.g. to do "plugins" in 
closed source projects), I feel that it's not a big lack regarding the 
IDE. (At least in Linux) re-compiling the IDE is done in a few seconds, 
so adding/deleting/replacing static packages is no hurdle.

-Michael