[Lazarus] Installation on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

[Tobias Giesen]

Vincent,

I'm not sure if you appreciate the hassle this teeny, tiny change has
caused. Now anyone who ever installed the ported Orpheus package, when
they move to a newer Lazarus will discover that it no longer works.
Period.

The fix is not difficult but I can't retroactively upgrade others'
installations.

This is my main issue with Lazarus these days: How perfectly good code
slowly "erodes" over time as Lazarus advances. It's almost impossible to
keep up. Staying with a stable build is not an option since the
widgetset improvements we need are often tied to LCL changes as well.

Thanks.

-Phil


-----Original Message-----
From: lazarus-bounces at lazarus.freepascal.org
[mailto:lazarus-bounces at lazarus.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Vincent
Snijders
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:14 PM
To: General mailing list
Subject: Re: [Lazarus] TextHeight property in TCustomForm

Hess, Philip J schreef:
> But did removing it add any value to Lazarus?

Any value? Yes. Less confusion about unused properties.

How much value, maybe very little.

> 
> All I know is that what once worked no longer does.
> 
> TextHeight is probably a holdover from early versions of Delphi, but
> Delphi still puts TextHeight in the .dfm. So if you want better
> compatibility...
> 

Me personally, no I don't want compatibility with unused Delphi ballast.

Vincent
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