[Lazarus] Release Candidate 1 of Lazarus 1.6

[Michael Schnell]

On 12/08/2015 04:19 PM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> The Lazarus team is glad to announce the first release candidate of Lazarus 1.6.
>
> This release was built with FPC 3.0.0.
> The previous release Lazarus 1.4.4 was built with FPC 2.6.4.
>
Great !

So there will be a Lazarus release that relies on fpc 3.x.

That means that I now can start the final phase of the "General Service" 
Widget Type (formerly called "Active NoGUI").

Obviously it will not be in the first 1.6 release, but happily the 
Lazarus releases are scheduled a lot more often than the fpc releases, 
so I will not have to wait another three years until the code might be 
published. But as the interest of the average Lazarus user is on Desktop 
applications rather than on Services I think there is no hurry, anyway. 
(Sorry, Bo :-( )

At some point of time I would like to have the code included in the svn 
(or somehow else be generally available for those who might want to use 
it or help to improve it (Bo ?!?!?! :-) :-) :-) ).


So now I think it's time to ask how to proceed.

Of course I do have a working code base for a first version of the 
thingy. But how to make it usable ?

AFAIK, the existing Widget Type is selected in the IDE by setting it in 
"Additions and Overrides" and/or by selecting an appropriate application 
type when creating a new project.

Of course I can't modify the IDE to support this.

For compiling, the Widget Type is defined by a "$define" value this is 
adhered to in the source code.

Of course I can't modify the "general" source code of the LCL to have it 
consider a new Widget Type (by introducing some lines that make it visible)


How to proceed ? `

-Michael