[Lazarus] Managing Packages with many versions

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 00:17:28 -0300
"Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus" <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org>
wrote:

>[...] Mattias,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus
> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> >> Then, the author update this package to 2.0 version.
> >> Imagine that you have many projects using version 1.0 but you would like to
> >> update to 2.0 to work in just one project.  
> >
> > A project can set a preferred version of a package:
> > http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Packages#Using_preferred_file_name  
> 
> But how can I choose the correct package if the different sources do
> not have Min or Max version numbers?

Maybe my wording 'preferred version' was misleading, but the link
explained the thing you were searching for.


> I mean, the `New Requirement dialog` should have an option to choose
> the package by path (default/preferred) and not only by Min Max.
> I saw that I can change this information editing the .lpi file, but
> would be great do this using IDE, don't you think?

Just right click on the dependency:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Project_Inspector#Store_file_name_as_preferred_for_this_dependency

Mattias