[Lazarus] [ISSUE] FCL-Web and LazReport

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2013, Alexander Klenin wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> This cannot be fixed. Lazreport is not suitable for use in webapplications.
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> I am curious -- can you elaborate on the reasons for that?
> I can understand the dependency on the concept of widgetset,
> but why nogui is not sufficient?

Because I do not consider noGUI a valid solution. 
It is a totally misguided concept.

I'm sure the lazarus devs had their reasons for introducing it,
but it is one of their worst decisions ever (in my opinion).

They should have fixed the original problems properly:
i.e. remove all erroneously introduced GUI dependencies, 
so nogui was not needed to begin with.
(I am aware that this might have taken more time)

Look at jasperreports in Java. 
It's core has no gui dependencies, and that is how it should be.

Michael.