[Lazarus] [PATCH] components/turbopower_ipro: added the Iphttpbroker and its example

[silvioprog]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org
> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, silvioprog wrote:
>>
>> Many units in Free Pascal and Delphi uses C libraries... when aren't using
>> a C library (an API system call, an third party library call, etc.), are
>> using assembly, ie, mostly time Pascal is used as a high-level language to
>> consume some low-level code written in C or assembly.
>>
>
> There is a simple reason: Debugging and bugfixing is a lot easier if all
> the code is in pascal.
>

I agree. Using external libraries has pros and cons.

Most libraries are a black box. I don't think I've purchased a
> library/package that didn't contain bugs,
> which I had to debug manually and fix.
>

Sad but true. :-/

The best advantage is that mostly C libraries have a lot of users and
active maintainers. I'm using three of them, and I got bugs on them, but I
fixed some of them by myself, and others I got help on theirs bugtracker.

Old timers as X, libc, pthreads and more such oldtimers will generally be
> bug-free, but there is lots of code out there with a less good track record.


Yes.

I'm using (and indicating) third party GNU C libraries, but before adopt
them, I check theirs ecosystem, how many programmers are involved on theirs
development, the commit history, how long an issue remains open, and if the
libraries are still active. :-)

-- 
Silvio Clécio
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