On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 02:36:48PM +0200, Reenen Laurie wrote: > > I think simply implementing packages would be easier, and also serves other > > purposes. (it's not just a plugin system for Lazarus, but at the same time > > for the generated apps) > > Is this in the short / mid term pipeline?
Nobody is currently working on it. There is even a trajectory of research before it. (to come up with the best approach to implement them on *nix) http://wiki.freepascal.org/packages > Because I guess that's all I actually wanted, but thought that perhaps an > interpreter would be a shortcut. I think the interpreter wouldn't be that much more easy to get workable, its is not just the IDE, but you need to define script->binary interfaces anywhere. But more importantly, it would break compatibility (with delphi, with the current situation) horribly, AND make packages dual language, dual-tool (pascalscript and native pascal). Despite being static, at least the packages system now is both versatile and Delphi pkgs can be ported reasonably fast. IMHO the solution is worse than the problem here. _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
