Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpc registry unit

2013-03-02 Thread John Lee
On 2 March 2013 02:05, leledumbo wrote: > > Registry is not part of rtl because it's not a base unit??? This is my > point it uses 200 other f*** units that aren't really needed! > > YOU don't use those 200 units, but the UNIT YOU USE needs them. Get the > point? > Even though you don't, what abo

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpc registry unit

2013-03-02 Thread Sven Barth
On 02.03.2013 01:01, John Lee wrote: Registry is not part of rtl because it's not a base unit??? This is my point it uses 200 other f*** units that aren't really needed! Not needed by you perhaps. The Registry unit also provides the TRegIniFile out of Delphi compatiblity which is a TIniFile de

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpc registry unit

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Registry is not part of rtl because it's not a base unit??? This is my point it uses 200 other f*** units that aren't really needed! So you are saying if one wants a single 50 line unit & does a complex procedure eg installi ng 10^10 lines of fpc etc then it is simple? And of course you have to

[fpc-pascal] Re: fpc registry unit

2013-03-01 Thread leledumbo
> Registry is not part of rtl because it's not a base unit??? This is my point it uses 200 other f*** units that aren't really needed! YOU don't use those 200 units, but the UNIT YOU USE needs them. Get the point? Even though you don't, what about other people? FPC is not released just for you, du

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpc registry unit

2013-03-01 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, John Lee said: > Registry is not part of rtl because it's not a base unit??? Yes. The registry is not needed for bootstrapping the compiler, or internally in the RTL. This is roughly the definition of the RTL, though there is some history there. On non Windows, registry

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpc registry unit

2013-03-01 Thread John Lee
Registry is not part of rtl because it's not a base unit??? This is my point it uses 200 other f*** units that aren't really needed! So you are saying if one wants a single 50 line unit & does a complex procedure eg installi ng 10^10 lines of fpc etc then it is simple? And of course you have to d

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpc registry unit

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: Everything should be as simple as possible... as the great man said!. It *is* simple. When you do an installation of FPC a "fpc.cfg" is created where all the unit paths included with the installation are already included. Provided that, on any given system, you've initial

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpc registry unit

2013-03-01 Thread Sven Barth
On 01.03.2013 21:57, John Lee wrote: Thanks all for your help - found the .ppu and .o at last - I note than inifiles itself needs some other stupid unit! ! I think you'll agree it is all more than somewhat compllcated tho' - can't see why registry unit is part of fcl tho - surely it is a simple

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpc registry unit

2013-03-01 Thread John Lee
Thanks all for your help - found the .ppu and .o at last - I note than inifiles itself needs some other stupid unit! ! I think you'll agree it is all more than somewhat compllcated tho' - can't see why registry unit is part of fcl tho - surely it is a simple routine for reading the registry - not

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpc registry unit

2013-03-01 Thread Sven Barth
On 01.03.2013 19:57, John Lee wrote: Thanks - just want a simple unit, I'm not using lazarus. If I go to this directory and try to compile registry with v2.6.2, win32, it then uses inifiles so that's needed and not part of the fpc 2.6.2 distribution afaik. Where can I find that please? If you

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpc registry unit

2013-03-01 Thread John Lee
Thanks - just want a simple unit, I'm not using lazarus. If I go to this directory and try to compile registry with v2.6.2, win32, it then uses inifiles so that's needed and not part of the fpc 2.6.2 distribution afaik. Where can I find that please? John On 1 March 2013 17:52, leledumbo wrote:

[fpc-pascal] Re: fpc registry unit

2013-03-01 Thread leledumbo
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