[Lazarus] fppkg and lazarus packages

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On 3 September 2010 12:09, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>>> Why does FPC still use .pp anyway? That's from FPC pre v1 days (as far
>>> as I remember, from Florian's history lesson).
>>
>> Nono. .pp is the official Free Pascal source extension.
>
> Oh?  I thought .pp was only used when the language Florian created was
> still called Pascal++ and the compiler for that language was FPK.
>
>> We support .pas for Dephi/TP compatibility. The compiler uses .pas because
>> initially it was compiled using TP.
>
> OK, more information added to my history lesson. :-)
>
> Maybe somebody should notify all authors of text editors like Kate,
> gEdit etc. to add .pp to the Pascal syntax highlighter filter mask.
> gEdit to this day doesn't know how to handle .pp files and I have to
> keep modifying it's configs. The same goes for Midnight Commander's
> built-in editor. Anyway, I think it's a bit silly using .pp for what
> is clearly the Object Pascal language. My 2c.

So you suggest changing it to .op ? :)

pp = Pascal Program makes perfect sense.

Actually, using a different extension has it's use, as Joost pointed out.
Use .pas if you're sharing code with Delphi, use .pp for FPC-only code.

Michael.