On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:09:24AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 22/02/2008, ik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I asked to mark the libc unit as obsolete because it set only for > > i386, but many users here use it anyway, although the Unix libraries > > have the same functions as well.. > > Well, not all of them! In the fpGUI project I use two libc functions > for Linux which aren't available in the unixbase etc units. I did > IFDEF that code, created an alternative for other platforms like > FreeBSD and limited it to only one location in the code so as not to > use it elsewhere.
Like? Note that the password stuff is now in both 2.2.1 and 2.3.x in the "users" package. > But yes, libc can be misleading to a unknown developer. I fell in that > trap in the beginning when I didn't know it was Linux and x86 > specific. Maybe we should get it over with and add deprecated to all functions. _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus