[Lazarus] Universal FontDialog for LCL

[Jesus Reyes A.]

En Mon, 11 Mar 2019 07:01:33 -0600, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus  
<lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> escribió:

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> On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, Kostas Michalopoulos via lazarus wrote:
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>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 12:55 PM Juha Manninen via lazarus
>> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>>> Everybody wants to include their custom components in LCL. Why?
>>
>> Most likely because it is much easier to have a single "batteries
>> included" installer that provides everything you need out of the box
>> now and much more likely to be there and working in the future (since
>> it is part of the codebase that the Lazarus devs are compiling against
>> after every modification), than chase after packages provided by
>> others who may or may not keep them available and up to date (keeping
>> your own copies can solve the "available" part, but then you take
>> unofficial ownership of the package for the "up to date" part).
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> Exactly.
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> Relying on packages somewhere in the cloud can lead to nasty surprises.
> I've been bitten by npm ("packaging on steroids") more than once when
> developing browser-based apps, and I am very reluctant to use such  
> mechanisms.
> You're constantly chasing version numbers for no good reason.
>

BTW Is not fppkg something like npm?

and BTW although not for MVC but, can fppkg-lazarus integration be removed  
until it just works? I would like not to see the config lazarus IDE dialog  
to open on every launch just because fppkg is not setup right (Error: the  
Fppkg configuration is corrupt. et al), and there is no way the user can  
fix it (when you are not using 'by default' the default fpc install).

Jesus Reyes A.