[lazarus] component

Marc Weustink marc at dommelstein.net
Mon Jan 27 15:57:23 EST 2003


At 16:56 23-1-2003 +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:22:23 +0100
>Remko Weingarten <RWeingarten at ortec.nl> wrote:
>
> > i have...but i think a structure like delphi is much easier, specially if
> > you have a lot of components.
>
>AFAIK there are currently not many custom components for lazarus available.
>So, it is not that urgent.
>OTOH, 80% of the package system does not need dynamic linking/unlinking and
>because lazarus should work OS independent the package system should work
>even without. Lets call it package system in static mode. Of course this
>means, that the IDE must be linked and restarted, everytime a package is
>installed/removed/recompiled. And as soon as fpc fully supports dyn libs, we
>can add the dynamic linking/unlinking.
>
>So, maybe we can start the package system.
>What do the others think?


I see no problems with this approach. It is a start and when dynamic 
linking is available it should be easy to adjust.

Marc






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