[Lazarus] CHM help package

Ondrej Pokorny lazarus at kluug.net
Tue Dec 12 10:35:21 CET 2017


On 11.12.2017 18:32, Werner Pamler via Lazarus wrote:
> I cloned your repo on my HD, and went through it step by step while 
> always trying to build lhelp, I could remove everything from the 
> folder chm except for these units: chmfifimain, chmreader, chmsitemap, 
> chmtypes (and chmobjinstance.inc). I think it is possible to extract 
> the essential changes from these units to get at least the new reading 
> functionality. I can try this - but: before beginning I'd like to get 
> positive feedback from fpc devs that this will be merged (I have some 
> old patches hanging around there, and it is not always motivating to 
> submit fpc patches).
>
> As for the unit lcid_conv: This fits into Lazarus' LazUtils, and 
> should go there independently of how this story ends here. I have 
> commit rights to Lazarus and can put it there. Any objections?

Why not to use TEncoding provided with FPC 3?

Ondrej


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