[Lazarus] Register Package Help

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 01 May 2008 19:48:52 -0400
Lee Jenkins <lee at datatrakpos.com> wrote:

> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > On Thu, 01 May 2008 09:59:08 -0400
> > Lee Jenkins <lee at datatrakpos.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to create a package to that contains a unit which
> >> defines a TShape descendant component following this example:
> >>
> >> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Packages#Adding_existing_components_to_a_Package
> >>
> >> The problem that I'm having is that package overwrites the .pas
> >> file that I include with:
> > 
> > You named the package the same as the unit. 
> > The IDE should not allow this. Please create a bug report and
> > explain how you did that. Did you create a new package, added the
> > file and then saved the package?
> 
> Actually, I have yet to get my password from the bug tracker and I
> have been lazy in not creating a new profile which I'll do after
> writing this email :)
> 
> The unit source name is:
> 
> pos_button.pas
> 
> I named the .lpk file:
> 
> posbutton.lpk
> 
> I figured that the names should not be exact, but I suppose that the
> IDE somehow stripped the underscore ?
> 
> At any rate,
> 
> 1. I created the source file first.
> 
> 2. Create the packages and added through "Add Unit" tab.
> 
> 3. Saved the lpk file as posbutton.lpk
> 
> 4. Compiled it and that is when it overwrote my source file.

Here it works. That means, it does not strip the underscore. The only
place where underscores are stripped are in the widgetsets for labels.
I don't see any relationship.
Can you reproduce it?

I added a check in svn 15029 to forbid naming a package as a unit.

Mattias