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Hello. Anyone working on Package support? I'd like to help...

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Warren Postma

Hi, I'm a 15+ year Pascal/Delphi developer interested in improving the FPC and Lazarus. I am interested in helping out with Package support. Was any work done on this? Who was working on it? How far did they get? Did anyone write up a package-architecture documentation of any kind? Is there any package-docs that describe a proposed object-oriented packaging system for the freepascal compiler/linker?

I am a fairly competent Unix/Posix developer already in C, and a god-like Delphi objectPascal developer (as well as incredibly humble <grin>), and I'd sure like to help fpc and lazarus evolve into being a real Delphi-like open source set of tools. Right now I think that fpc needs a lot more features (like complete support for packages, variants including var-arrays) before I start into contribs for Lazarus. The fact that Lazarus component "packages" require a recompilation of lazarus itself is proof positive that Lazarus will be stuck in a rut until FPC evolves a little. I've always wanted to get my hands dirty inside compiler/linker code, so here goes...

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Warren Postma
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Warren Postma wrote
Hi, I'm a 15+ year Pascal/Delphi developer interested in improving the FPC and Lazarus. I am interested in helping out with Package support. Was any work done on this?

None yet.

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Who was working on it? How far did they get? Did anyone write up a package-architecture documentation of any kind? Is there any package-docs that describe a proposed object-oriented packaging system for the freepascal compiler/linker?

None is designed yet. The specs are simple: Take any Delphi package and compile it.

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I am a fairly competent Unix/Posix developer already in C, and a god-like Delphi objectPascal developer (as well as incredibly humble <grin>), and I'd sure like to help fpc and lazarus evolve into being a real Delphi-like open source set of tools. Right now I think that fpc needs a lot more features (like complete support for packages, variants including var-arrays) before I start into contribs for Lazarus. The fact that Lazarus component "packages" require a recompilation of lazarus itself is proof positive that Lazarus will be stuck in a rut until FPC evolves a little. I've always wanted to get my hands dirty inside compiler/linker code, so here goes...

Feel free to start on package/variants support. Personally, I would be most pleased if the Variants are working. It's a bigger showstopper than Packages.

Michael.

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