[Lazarus] Managing Packages with many versions

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2017, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <
> lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
>> Put the various versions  in different directories. The IDE will use the
>> correct one based on the dependencies and the location. Every version
>> needs to have been opened once in the IDE.
>>
>> I use it all the time. Works fine, except some rather exotic error messages
>> if the IDE doesn't find a matching version.
>>
>
> That is a way, thanks.
> But I am thinking something like bellow:

Below. Bellow is something a cow does ;-)

>
> smartfoo
>  \lib
>    \i386-win32\
>      \1.0
>      \1.1
>      \1.2.3
>      *.ppu (trunk)
>    \x86_64-win64
>      \1.0
>      *.ppu (trunk)
>
>
> My point is each project just use PPU files, not the real sources because I
> would like
> to have just one source.
> The correct way is the author freeze the version using a label, but I can
> do this myself locally. Then, I can compile and copy the PPU files for the
> right lib\<plataform>\<version>.
>
> But using this way I will need to set up which path to use when I add a
> package into the project, right?
> What do you think about it?

AFAIK The IDE will not work with that.

It needs the actual sources of each version. 
So you need multiple directories with the sources of each version.

FPC itself can work with this, if properly configured.


Michael.