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[Peter Vreman]

> > I meant that if you distribute a compiled class library, and the user
> > installs a newer version of FPC, then at each compile of his program,
> > the compiler will try to recompile the while class library, because
> > the RTL that comes with FPC is newer than the class library e.g. you
> > distributed.
> 
> Ahhh. Got ya. I wasn't think in those terms. I would assume that if you
> are distributing something that the user needs to recompile you are
> suppling all of the source. Otherwise you need to distribute a library
> and not a PPU. FPC will change more frequently than say Delphi which
> allowed the distrubution of DCU files because the compiler itself didn't
> change over time.
That's only since delphi, because with tp there were a lot of probs with
tp5/tp6/tp7 upgrading without having sources of the used tpu's

A nice way to distribute is to have a library and a interface with source
which is just a bunch of external; things.

Another thing about PPU. These are made in such way that unknown entries
can be skipped so when we reach a level of mature then we can build
compilers which can read multiple versions of PPU's

Peter