[Lazarus] How to get rid of duplicate ppu?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2014, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:06:49 +0200 (CEST)
> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 11 Jun 2014, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
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>> Maybe the IDE should check whether one of the paths points to the sources directory of a known package.
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> The IDE now shows warnings for these cases.
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>> If so, it could offer to replace the path with a dependency of the package.
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> Good idea.
> Because of macros it can be tricky to find out, which path has added
> the directory. For some common cases it is possible. I added todos.
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>> It happened not once that I saw a project where the author put explicitly the path to an existing package.
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> I saw. Some people just don't like packages.

A pity, because Lazarus handles packages really SO much better than Delphi :(

>> The fix has always been to do as I described above...
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> That's one half of the fix.
> The other is to explain to the user that packages are compiled
> separately, that fpc creates ppu files, which are like caches and
> duplicate caches are a mess.

Indeed. I never thought of it as a cache, but you are right.

Michael.