[lazarus] 0.8.5 alpha - Plz read carefully

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 21:18:59 +0100
"Vincent Snijders" <vslist at zonnet.nl> wrote:

> What is the preferred order of units in the uses clause?
> 
> 1. uses Interfaces, Forms, MyForm;
> 2. uses Forms, Interfaces, MyForm;

There is no double identifier and interfaces uses forms, so the
initialization order is fixed. You can write the three units above in
any permutation.

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

I added them already. 
I just started a few of them and saw a lot of errors. :(
I must admit, that I never pay much attention to the examples, but this
was too worse. These are not examples for the LCL, these are bug
reports. I will fix them in the next days ..


Mattias



> 
> 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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