[Lazarus] Which program type to select for cron usage?

Michael Schnell mschnell at lumino.de
Mon Oct 19 11:06:51 CEST 2015


On 10/19/2015 10:47 AM, Bo Berglund wrote:
>
> 1) Simple Program (A most simple FP command line program)
> 2) Program (A FP cmd line program with some useful settings added)
> 3) Console App (A FP cmd line program using TCustomApplication..)
>
> I will probably need to use threads inside the program so I guess that
> 2 or 3 would be the appropriate selection.
> Is there something else that may affect the decision?
> And what is the best selection between Program and Console
> Application?
>
AFAIK, these three types don't feature different support for threads 
(i.e. none regarding Lazarus, but TTHread inherited from fpc)

IMHO, in fact for want you describe you will not need Lazarus library 
functionality at all, but of course it does make sense to use Lazarus as 
an IDE.

-Michael




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