[Lazarus] Unicode branch

[Michael Schnell]

On 06/12/2013 02:18 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
> It is bad practice to rely in code on the defines defined by the 
> compiler.
Of course I do know this (and many more similar portability-paradigms). 
But my colleagues do coding only with Delphi (and thus Windows) in mind. 
I can't help this. But now "suddenly" (since some 5 years) the company 
wishes to support Linux.

I do research on that but I can't force them to to modify their hundred 
thousands of code lines on that behalf (_Again_ after they needed to do 
this because of the move of Delphi to Unicode). If it's to difficult 
they will just say the move towards Linux is impossible.

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> In each case, FPC will not define the same defines as Delphi.

Of course not, but there are instances like this that are rather obvious 
and limited, thus supposedly doable.

-Michael