[fpc-devel] Generics.Collections as package for Lazarus or package for FPC RTL

[Sven Barth]

Am 27.01.2016 07:38 schrieb "Michael Van Canneyt" <michael at freepascal.org>:
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> On Tue, 26 Jan 2016, Maciej Izak wrote:
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>> 2016-01-26 22:43 GMT+01:00 silvioprog <silvioprog at gmail.com>:
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>>> The Generics.Collections should be added to RTL or as a FPC package.
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>>> Is there some problem in your implementation that Laz team decided to
add
>>> it as Lazarus package? If so, is it fixable? :-/
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>>>> current version: https://github.com/dathox/generics.collections
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>> Yes. The biggest problem is that the Generics.Collections is not already
in
>> RTL. ;) I need this for all my "Sparta packages".
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> The reason your collection was not added as a package to FPC was that
there
> were some compiler bugs at the time. If these bugs are fixed, I see no
> reason why the package should not be added to FPC.
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> Can you remind me the bug ID ? then I will look at it.

The main reason is Collections.Defaults. I'm definitely not a fan of the
manual interface building it does, because I don't want to have to maintain
that, just in case we change some implementation detail in FPC that this
unit happens to rely on, maybe even only in a subtle way. No performance
gain is worth this potential maintenance nightmare. And until I had the
time to thoroughly check the implications that this unit has I won't add
the code to the RTL (just in case: rtl-objpas or rtl-extra, not the
bootstrapping RTL).

Regards,
Sven
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