[Lazarus] What is the future of NoGUI widget set?

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:08:28 +0200
Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Op 2011-01-25 11:58, Mattias Gaertner het geskryf:
> > Without the nogui widgetset there would be no lazbuild, because the
> > task would be so big, that no one would have started it.
> 
> What does lazbuild do that it must require the 'nogui' widgetset? If a
> simple 'make' can compile the IDE, or 'fpc @extrafpc.cfg <project-unit>'
> can compile any of the fpGUI projects or 'fpmake' could be used to do
> exactly the same, then why require lazbuild (or at least it's gui
> dependency)?

For example: make can not find needed packages and find out if they
needs compiling.

 
> What Michael and I are saying, the 'nogui' widgetset gives this false
> pretence to developers wanting to develop a real console application.
> Giving way to much leeway for errors.

You can write console apps using the LCL even without the nogui
widgetset.

 
> > The LCL provides some useful methods for non gui apps too.
> > There are plans to split the LCL and IDEIntf into the gui and nongui
> > parts.
> 
> I would suggest that...or move such code into the FCL or RTL, or simply
> take advantage of "Lazarus packages" feature and create a runtime only
> (non-gui) package that LCL.lpk (if something like that exists) depends on.

That's the idea, yes.

Mattias