[Lazarus] Package filenames with _package

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2018-01-07 09:42, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote:
>> many Laz packages have suffix anyway: Dsgn, Pkg, pkg, maybe others.
> True. And this is unfortunate, because it is not functional at all.

Well, I think it is very important to distinguish between "runtime" and 
"design time" packages. One has very different dependencies and meaning 
compared to the other one.

Your idea of fpmake using automatic prefixes is good and all, but when a 
developer creates a package using Lazarus IDE, there is no "automatic 
naming" in play.

The "pkg" suffix is pointless indeed, that is what the file extension is 
for. But the "dsgn" suffix is commonly used to distinguish between 
runtime (no suffix) and design time usage.

Regards,
   Graeme

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