[Lazarus] RE : RE : Package depencies and order of compiling when building lazarus

[Ludo Brands]

> > I didn't find any doc on this and the lazarus source uses 
> PkgBoss to open a
> > package. PackageIntf was already in use for the TPkgOpenFlag enum.
> 
> I added an example: 
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Extending_the_IDE#Open_a_pa
ckage_file_.28lpk.29

I think there is a typo in the example:
var
  p: TIDEPackage; 
...
 
Pkg:=PackageEditingInterface.FindPackageWithName(ExtractFilenameOnly(LPKFile
name));
 
P != Pkg.

It's probably also worth mentioning that PackageIntf is in the package
IDEIntf.

> > 
> > > So I have added IDE as
> > > dependency to my package.
> > 
> > I knew that this package would cause trouble.
> > This package is only for testing IDE features - for the IDE
> > developers. Nothing in the ide package is supported and can 
> > change at any time. I will add a check, so that no package 
> > can be installed that uses the ide.lpk.

> The IDE now forbids to install it.

Thanks, Ludo