[Lazarus] Again an UTF8 mess!

Giuliano Colla giuliano.colla at fastwebnet.it
Wed Jul 13 18:32:03 CEST 2016


Il 13/07/2016 15:40, Juha Manninen ha scritto:
> Giuliano, you can still use the wrappers by defining EnableWrapperFunctions.
> However I recommend using the correct units. It is not a very big
> change in your code.

I don't complain about the change in code. It has always happened and it 
will happen in future.

I know that those procedures are in the Fileutils unit, I gave a look 
and I understood what had happened. But what of unaware users?

I complain about making things more obscure and difficult than necessary 
for a plain average user. If a symbol, name procedure, whatever is 
marked as deprecated, it's easily understood by anybody. If it generates 
a compiler error telling what he should do instead, or that one should 
read the release notes, it's again easy to handle. If it simply 
"undefined" with no other clue, it just generates user frustration.

Giuliano




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