On 01/10/2011 12:09 PM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: > > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, alexv...@mail.ru wrote: > >> 10.01.2011 13:50, michael.vancann...@wisa.be пишет: >>> >>> >>> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, alexv...@mail.ru wrote: >>> >>>> 10.01.2011 13:05, michael.vancann...@wisa.be пишет: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Vincent Snijders wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> 2011/1/10 alexv...@mail.ru <alexv...@mail.ru>: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> But I want packages to be binary portable between OS (on target >>>>>>> processor >>>>>>> architecture) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't think that is feasible, unless you don't use any OS features. >>>>> >>>>> Exactly. >>>>> >>>>> Even just because FPC supports multiple CPUs; You can't use an i386 >>>>> package on SPARC or ARM. >>>>> >>>>> So you'll always have to recompile your package for all platforms >>>>> that you want to support. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> But only for all processors, not for all existing combinations of >>>> processor and OS. >>> >>> You should re-read Florian's email, and *fully* understand the >>> consequences. >>> >>> Your proposal requires that we emulate all OSes on all other OSes, >>> because >>> the basic package (rtl or whatever it will be called) always depends >>> on the OS. There is no way around this. >>> >> My solution, in short, is that packages should have OS independent >> interface to RTL built into executable visible to packages as RTL >> built as c package (with is a bridge to real RTL). > > I understood that. Assuming you can make this interface (which I don't > believe), your solution is still not realistic: > > And how will you make a package that uses a os-specific function OS > independent ? (for instance, a package with a control that uses a WinAPI > call.) > > So a package with the LCL is by definition impossible. > > Like I said, your proposal requires that we emulate all OSes on all > other OSes.
Looking from the top (the user), is that not what is done now? All applications have the same user-interface for different OS's. So by definition what is in-between is part application and part 'normalisation' of the OS. Regards / Cees (who has no practical experience with fpc-pascal/Lazarus/Freepascal i.e. a lurker) > > Michael. > > > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
