[fpc-pascal] When are used units recompiled? (wiki page added)

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Apr 10 13:38:41 CEST 2006


> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:58:09PM +0200, Giovanni Premuda wrote:
 
> > Btw. no sane commercial Delphi developer has ever considered using a 
> > component without source code at least since Delphi 2.0. Look at the 
> > offering of component vendors and you will see that they invariably 
> > offer source code licenses.
> 
> Most likely because the 'compatibility mechanism' is not very effective.

No, also to be able to maintain the component (fix bugs and look at the
implementation). Both the companies I did Delphi work for professionaly,
mandated full source for the components.




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