[fpc-pascal] Re: fpc registry unit

[John Lee]

On 2 March 2013 02:05, leledumbo <leledumbo_cool at yahoo.co.id> wrote:

> > Registry is not part of rtl because it's not a base unit??? This is my
> point it uses 200 other f*** units that aren't really needed!
>
> YOU don't use those 200 units, but the UNIT YOU USE needs them. Get the
> point?
> Even though you don't, what about other people? FPC is not released just
> for
> you, dude. Stop being selfish...
>
> Well aware of other fpcers needs - was just complaining about the problems
in finding a suitable small unit - dude! I think after 500 years of fpc ing
(or it sometimes seems like that) I'm entitled to make the 'overcomplex'
argument even if, dude, you don't agree.


> > So you are saying if one wants a single 50 line unit & does a complex
> > procedure eg installi ng 10^10 lines of fpc etc then it is simple?  And
> of
> > course you have to do this for every version of fpc you want to use!
>
> Simple, just grab the installer (win or mac), or take from repository
> (lin),
> or compile from source (all).
> You don't seem to understand the basic concept how modular programming
> (unit) works, and FPC packages is highly modular. We won't include
> everything in a single unit, that's SILLY.
>
> Think I'm as well aware of such ideas - been here for somewhat longer than
you I suspect!


> > And, of course as I've seen, the size of the .exe from  v2.2.2 cf v2.6.2
> > is twice as large because of all the c*** included by the various uses..
>
> Not really, code size increase can come from anything. Feature support,
> unstripped binaries, change in debug info format, etc. but so what? How big
> is that anyway? Twice? You must be kidding, if you do everything properly,
> the size increase won't even touch 20%. I have an application that I've
> developed since 2008 (https://code.google.com/p/express-gui) and you can
> see
> the "increase" in size of the binaries from time to time (search All
> Downloads to see everything since 2008). Increase? Yeah if you count
> backwards...
>
> > This is all simple?  Not in my dictionary's definition! Dooooooh
>
> Then expand it, your dictionary is too localized and narrow
>
A dictionary def can't be expanded as you put it - simple is simple
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