[lazarus] 0.8.5 alpha - Plz read carefully

[Vincent Snijders]

What is the preferred order of units in the uses clause?

1. uses Interfaces, Forms, MyForm;
2. uses Forms, Interfaces, MyForm;

Are you going to update the examples or should I send you patch for it?

Regards,
Vincent Snijders.

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Mattias Gaertner [mailto:nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de]
> Verzonden: zaterdag 26 oktober 2002 17:34
> Aan: lazarus at miraclec.com
> Onderwerp: [lazarus] 0.8.5 alpha - Plz read carefully
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> The LCL has finally become completely independent of the interfaces.
> When you update your cvs plz make sure that you use the -dP options, and
> rebuild clean. Some important files were removed.
> Because of the independency an old trick does not work any longer. You
> MUST now add 'interfaces' to the programs uses statement. The IDE will
> do this automatically for new applications. For your existing projects,
> you must do this yourself. Otherwise if you compile an old application
> with the new LCL you will get the following error on startup:
> 
> ERROR: No interface object. Plz check if "interfaces" was added to the
> programs uses section.
> 
> To reflect this backwards incompatibility and because it was time
> anyway, the lazarus version was increased to 0.8.5 alpha.
> 
> A detailed list of changes to 0.8.4a will follow in the next days.
> 
> 
> Mattias
> 
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