[Lazarus] Only VCL-compatible components in LCL

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich2 at gmx.de
Thu Dec 11 07:11:14 CET 2014


Am 11.12.2014 um 00:20 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> On 2014-12-09 22:29, Michael Fuchs wrote:
>> It is not a problem for me, to publish this component outside the LCL. I
>> was just surprised, that the development of the LCL has such a strong
>> dependency to the VCL.
> Maybe I'm not understanding Juha, but I think this is rubbish. It's not
> that black and white. LCL contains a lot of components not compatible or
> not existing in the VCL.
>
> But I also understand that they don't want every single component
> included in the LCL, because it means they will probably end up having
> to support it.
As I understand that: The components in the LCL should be available with 
all supported widgetsets. An implementation for only one widgetset is 
not worth of adding it to the LCL, because it would burden the LCL 
maintainers with the implementation for all other widgetsets.

DoDi




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