[Lazarus] Strange dependency of units

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:22:05 +0200
Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:

> Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
> > On 31-3-2012 15:08, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
> >   
> >>> Hint: When you use Cody to add the grids unit to the uses section, it
> >>> will automatically add the LCL as dependency.
> >>>       
> >> What is Cody? 
> >>     
> > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=cody&fulltext=Search
> >   
> This reminds me on this: http://www.ztw3.com/forum/forum_entry.php?id=114358
> You answer sounds like the Linux part ;-)
> Is Lazarus on the same way?

In the past the programs that used only parts of the LCL compiled, but
would then later fail at runtime at some strange place. Now you already
see at compile time that something is missing. That's definitely better.

And the IDE has already some checks for common mistakes.

Mattias