[Lazarus] Files with .rst, .compiled files and .lrs extensions

[Frank Church]

On 16 August 2011 19:47, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am 16.08.2011 16:08, schrieb Frank Church:
>
>>
>>
>> On 16 August 2011 14:26, Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
>> <mailto:nc-gaertnma@**netcologne.de <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>>> wrote:
>>
>>    On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:04:26 +0100
>>    Frank Church <vfclists at gmail.com <mailto:vfclists at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     > Is it necessary to save .compiled files to VCS, especially in a
>>     > crossplatform application?
>>
>>    No.
>>    Do *not* save .compiled files in VCS.
>>
>>
>>     > Are they more applicable to packages or to projects.
>>
>>    The same.
>>
>>
>>     > Are .lrs used by Lazarus 0.9.29 and above? I remember reading
>>    somewhere that
>>     > only .res are now enough, or some other such files.
>>
>>    lrs files work with any version.
>>    Using .res files requires fpc 2.4.4+ and 0.9.29+.
>>    You can mix units using lrs and units using res in a project.
>>
>>
>>
>> What are .lrs files, are they actually necessary, or do .res files do
>> the same thing?
>>
>
> .lrs files are basically the predecessors of .res files (in the context of
> Lazarus). They are include files which contains the resource contents inside
> a Pascal array of Strings AFAIK and were used before full resource support
> in the compiler was available.
>
> Regards,
> Sven
>
>
>
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Are .res compatible on a cross platform basis? Do they belong in VCS?

Are .lpi files compatible across platforms? I tried to merge a windows .lpi
file into a Linux one and got a merge conflict.

Are such conflicts usually resolvable?
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Frank Church

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