On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Tom Verhoeff wrote:
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 10:24:59AM +0200, Peter Vreman wrote:
There is nothing different compared with TP / Delphi. The internal PPU
format is made for speed and contains direct references from one PPU to
another PPU. Incompatible PPUs can therefor never be used together.
I could not find any of this in the documentation, but I may have
looked in the wrong places. Of course, I am not reading TP / Delphi
doc when using FPC :-).
The release of closed source PPUs need to be done on a per stable release.
Just like with delphi and tp7.
So please don't make a big issue out of this, the situation is still the
same as it was for the last 20+ years.
Except that there were fewer releases/platforms to cope with, when using
TP or Delphi.
I just happened to be bitten by it in an unexpected way. If it is
properly documented, then there is no issue. I have tried to remedy
that by creating the wiki page on relasing units without source code.
It could be helpful if an FPC developer checks that page:
<http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Releasing_units_without_source_code>
It might be useful to include a bit in the User's Manual as well
(updated Section 3.3 on Compiling a unit).
I will check the manual.
You note somewhere that:
"(The User's Manual is not up to date on this topic, I believe.
If you know more details, e.g. from which version on this
changed, then please put it here.)"
Can you tell me what you mean by this ?
Michael.
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