In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: > > > > However in Michael's scheme with Sysutils using Ansi and System.Sysutils > > using unicodestring this will fail. > > Why would this fail ? All we need to do is introduce -NS ?
If you have a mix of generations (as is currently possible with Delphi), how do you avoid linking in two different sysutils? > And obviously the 2 RTLs cannot be mixed. Correct. And if they only differ in name, dotted or not, and you can set namespaces to override the dots, how do you keep them apart? > > Worse, one mistake in your sources (e.g. a non qualified forms) and you get > > bunches of "Incompatible Type Forms.TForm, expected VCL.Forms.TForm" style > > errors. > > > > I think some solution with alternative -Fu settings is to be prefered and > > not abuse an unrelated feature (dotted unitnames) to have both ansi an > > unicodestrings in one install. > > The alternative is 4 rtls. > > Dotted, ansi > not dotted, ansi > > Dotted, unicode > not dotted, unicode. > > which is clear nonsense. No, two rtls, both dotted, with namespace if needed. Which is the same as what you propose, just kept physically apart. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
