On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:52:44 +0100 Hans-Peter Diettrich <drdiettri...@aol.com> wrote:
> Mattias Gaertner schrieb: > > > The base units are independent of the widgetset units and the widgetset > > units use the base units. So the package of widgetset units must use > > the package of the base units. > > Theoretically: If the base package would be named 'LCL', then > > all existing projects would no longer work, because they misses the > > widgetset units. > > Why then have separate packages at all, when every GUI application > depends on both? There are two type of output directories. > >>From the users point of view the LCL split is the same as if > > a big package was split into two. The upper package keeps the original > > name for compatibility. Compilation works, but fpdoc links get into > > trouble. > > Building old projects (examples...) now fails, because these depend on > LCL, not on LCLbase :-( For example? > > This is because the inheriting of packages is not (yet) implemented for > > fpdoc. It's not a big task to implement this for the IDE code hints, > > but I don't know yet about the rest of fpdoc. I can take a look after > > my vacation. > > > > In other words: > > Eventually both fpdoc links "#LCL.Controls" and "#LCLBase.Controls" > > should work. But of course #LCLBase.Controls is more correct. > > IMO "#LCL.Controls" and "#Widgetsets.whateverelse" would be more > appropriate. An example for widgetsets: #LCL.gtk2wsstdctrls. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
