On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marco van de Voort ha scritto: > > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> I find more and more units and components (for Lazarus) that are using > >>> the libc unit. I find it really problematic, because it doesn't exists > >>> for all platforms and architectures, so why not markring the unit as > >>> obsolete for the next FPC release so other developers will have to > >>> work with more flexible units ? > >> Other users will start to submit bug reports that there is no Libc unit. > >> We clearly state that libc is only for compatibility and not for > portability. The same is with the > >> old TP7 units. > > > > We could mark all functions in libc with deprecated. The questions keep > > coming back. Harsh, but IMHO the only sane way. > > What would be of great help is concise guide on how migrate of the libc > functionalities (a wiki page?). I'm porting to fpc Kylix projects which > used libc. Reading this mailing list I realized that libc wasn't the way > to go, but I had a hell of a time to discover the equivalents, scattered > in SysUtils, Unix, UnixUtils,BaseUnix, sometimes with different names, > different parameters, etc. > > Sort of: > libc.getenv -> SysUtils.GetEnvironmentVariable > > Someone with a good knowledge of fpc should be able to do it in a short > time.
I usually use grep when I require to find things. I personally do not understand why the unix units contain function names with the prefix of Fp, but it does not matter, because the name remains, so I do something like grep -in functionname ./location/* -R | grep -v "something I do not wish to be included" And I find what/where what I wish to have is located... It's good btw for anything you do not remember/know where/how it is located ... > > Giuliano > > -- > Giuliano Colla > > Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong (O. Wilde) > > Ido -- http://ik.homelinux.org/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
