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

[Sven Barth]

Am 27.01.2016 08:54 schrieb "Michael Van Canneyt" <michael at freepascal.org>:
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> On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Sven Barth wrote:
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>> 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
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>>>>> 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
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>>>> 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
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>>> 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.
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>> 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).
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> Yes, I had a nagging feeling there was something else still...
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> And please, not in rtl-objpas. New package rtl-generics or fcl-generics.

As long as it's not in the bootstrapping RTL I don't really care where we
put it ;)

Regards,
Sven
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