> You can't, for Lazarus. You need the classes, that's what you > need the plugins for in the first place: to install > additional components on the component palette. They must > descend from the TComponent which is in the IDE. > > There is no way around it.
If you had an immutable Icomponent interface it could be. The IDE would talk to the components only using immutable (not-changeable once published) interfaces (Icomponent, IComponent2, IComponent3 etc.) > > > Borland's packages are also incompatible between released > versions. > > > > Sure, but above you said Borland keeps them compatible. > > With this I mean that they release not so often that it > becomes a problem. > if they would release every 3 weeks, it's a problem, this is obvious. > > Lazarus will have to do the same if they want to have > dynamically loadable packages. > don't take Borland as an example in this case, it's a very bad practice what they did... ---------------- George Birbilis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computer & Informatics Engineer Microsoft MVP J# for 2004-2007 Borland "Spirit of Delphi" 3D, QuickTime, QTVR, Java, Delphi, ActiveX, .NET components, Robotics http://www.kagi.com/birbilis http://birbilis.spaces.live.com _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
