[Lazarus] An online package manager

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Mon Aug 10 22:13:10 CEST 2015



On Mon, 10 Aug 2015, Juha Manninen wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> - As part of the build instructions, dependencies between packages but also
>> between units can (and must) be specified.
>
> Why is that?
> Unit dependencies are already specified in uses sections of the units
> themselves.

Because then you can optimize the compilation process. 
If units are specified in the "wrong" order, they can be processed twice.

Michael.




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