[Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

[Marco van de Voort]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:57:32AM +0100, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> > This is not to start a flame war, but would you care to explain:
> > 
> >>  * Lazarus has much better Packages than Delphi's dumb packages.
> > 
> > I'd like to port a Delphi app wich uses package based plugins and as
> > far as I know there is no way I can do that with FPC/Lazarus?
> 
> Indeed, because using packages as a plugin system is abusing packages:
> packages have no well defined and stable abi being usable from any
> language thus they are not the right choose for a good plugin system.

Well, that is the whole point of packages, a higher level (pascal) plugin
concept. 

Personally I think though that the Delphi like design time packages will
never work for Lazarus. Why? Simply because Delphi has a controlled, small
amount of versions.