[lazarus] Need opinion

[Florian Klaempfl]

Marc Weustink wrote:
> 
> At 15:44 25-10-99 -0500, Shane Miller wrote:
> >In the MWEDIT source, they call some WINAPI calls like GETKEYSTATE and
> STRINGOFCHAR.
> >
> >Where should I put these?  MWEDIT expects them in a windows.pas (or .pp)
> file but I would assume that once we write them, we would allow Linux users
> to use them so I could put them in a linux.pp file, but them mwedit doesn't
> find them.
> >
> >Any simple way around this?  Should I just write it twice, once in the
> windows.pp file and once in the linux.pp file because you would assume that
> if they are using windows.pp they WOULDN'T be using Linux.pp
> 
> Nah, I dont think this is the way. I t should be just one file. This way
> you introduce platform specific files. Maybe we can see it as an
> (OS)windows file in stead odf an (MS)windows file ?
> 

But don't name it windows.pp! This will lead to conflicts with existing
the windows.pp. What about a simple lclbase.pp?