[fpc-devel] TClientDataset (was: Dnamic packages support)

2007-11-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > Op zaterdag 03-11-2007 om 19:57 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Michael > Van Canneyt: > > > > Packages and the missing TClientDataset are the only 2 remaining > > things > > stopping me from using FPC/Lazarus for my daytime job. All else is > >

Re: [fpc-devel] Solaris X86

2007-11-03 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 03 Nov 2007, at 15:58, Leonardo M. RamX wrote: My company bought an amazing Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation, with two Opteron processors and Solaris 10 installed. This machine will be used as a demo server for a third party java app we sell, but since we'll be porting some Delphi services to

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Marco van de Voort: > > Florian Klaempfl schrieb: > > >>> Ok, I'll ask next time this person to spent the weekend to fix windows > > >>> installer scripts and assign to it the still open web download page, > > >>> installer and install package bugs. > > >> I was never

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Marco van de Voort schrieb: >> Florian Klaempfl schrieb: > Ok, I'll ask next time this person to spent the weekend to fix windows > installer scripts and assign to it the still open web download page, > installer and install package bugs. I was never for the download system in the

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
> Florian Klaempfl schrieb: > >>> Ok, I'll ask next time this person to spent the weekend to fix windows > >>> installer scripts and assign to it the still open web download page, > >>> installer and install package bugs. > >> I was never for the download system in the first place remember? In my >

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op zaterdag 03-11-2007 om 19:57 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Michael Van Canneyt: > > Packages and the missing TClientDataset are the only 2 remaining > things > stopping me from using FPC/Lazarus for my daytime job. All else is > covered or can be covered with a minimal amount of work. You'l

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Florian Klaempfl schrieb: > Marco van de Voort schrieb: >> [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] >>> Because we've to deliever also the fpl's? >> If it really is that of a problem, you only deliver them using a optional >> package. > Who will maintain this? The pers

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Marco van de Voort schrieb: > [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] >> Because we've to deliever also the fpl's? > If it really is that of a problem, you only deliver them using a optional > package. Who will maintain this? >>> The person that will otherwise have to exp

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > Because we've to deliever also the fpl's? > >>> If it really is that of a problem, you only deliver them using a optional > >>> package. > >> Who will maintain this? > > > > The person that will otherwise have to explain to newbies how to pa

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
> Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Marco van de Voort: > > > > Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Michael Van Canneyt: > > > Even then, there will only be savings if the amount of code that can be > > > smartlinked is small. > > > > > > Example: Let's say an LCL package is 10MB. 2 applications are 2MB when

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
> Michael Van Canneyt schreef: > > > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > >> Don't get too worked up about plugin architectures in the AutoCAD sense. In > >> practice it is way simpler, like only shipping one BPL to a custom if he > >> @([EMAIL PROTECTED] paid for it. This means

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Marco van de Voort: > > Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Michael Van Canneyt: > > Even then, there will only be savings if the amount of code that can be > > smartlinked is small. > > > > Example: Let's say an LCL package is 10MB. 2 applications are 2MB when > > smartli

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Vincent Snijders
Michael Van Canneyt schreef: On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Marco van de Voort wrote: Don't get too worked up about plugin architectures in the AutoCAD sense. In practice it is way simpler, like only shipping one BPL to a custom if he @([EMAIL PROTECTED] paid for it. This means you can have one main bina

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Marco van de Voort schrieb: >> Marco van de Voort schrieb: >> - major blow up of installer size > I fail to see this ? Because we've to deliever also the fpl's? >>> If it really is that of a problem, you only deliver them using a optional >>> package. >> Who will maintain this? > > Th

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
> Marco van de Voort schrieb: > - major blow up of installer size > >>> I fail to see this ? > >> Because we've to deliever also the fpl's? > > > > If it really is that of a problem, you only deliver them using a optional > > package. > > Who will maintain this? The person that will otherwi

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > To be honest, all this diskspace/memory stuff is totally uninteresting. > Packages are about dividing the Pascal program up in blocks, with parts > being compilable AFTER the main program, without a lot of additional demands > (or need for contr

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > >> Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: >>> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: >>> Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > >> Leonardo M. Ramé schrieb: >>> Rea

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Marco van de Voort schrieb: - major blow up of installer size >>> I fail to see this ? >> Because we've to deliever also the fpl's? > > If it really is that of a problem, you only deliver them using a optional > package. Who will maintain this? ___

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
> Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Michael Van Canneyt: > Even then, there will only be savings if the amount of code that can be > smartlinked is small. > > Example: Let's say an LCL package is 10MB. 2 applications are 2MB when > smartlinked, and 100kb when linked against the package. (The heap can

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Daniël Mantione wrote: > > > Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Michael Van Canneyt: > > > > > > - memory footprint of programs increase significantly since no > > > smartlinking is possible, I created once a pure shared linked lazarus: > > > it depended on 50 MB of shared libs.

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
> Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > >>> Hm. I don't see what OSS or not OSS has to do with it ? > >> Packages have major drawbacks > >> - DLL/shared lib hell; remember each fpc build gets/needs it's own set > >> of packages > > > > I don't see this as a problem. We release only once a year. > > Well

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > > > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > > >> Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > >>> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > >>> > Leonardo M. Ramé schrieb: > > Reading a post in "public.mseide

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Michael Van Canneyt: > > > - memory footprint of programs increase significantly since no > > smartlinking is possible, I created once a pure shared linked lazarus: > > it depended on 50 MB of shared libs. > > Disk footprint may be higher, but memory footprint is de

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > >> Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: >>> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: >>> Leonardo M. Ramé schrieb: > Reading a post in "public.mseide-msegui.talk", the mseide discussion > list, I found this:

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Dani?l Mantione wrote: > ... > In my opinion, Packages are the second best thing Borland did for RAD. > If I remember the shit we had with VB and its OCXes, DLLs and whatnot. > ... I agree. I also want to remind that it is not just about the use for us. The devels will crea

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > > > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > > >> Leonardo M. Ramé schrieb: > >>> Reading a post in "public.mseide-msegui.talk", the mseide discussion > >>> list, I found this: > >>> > >>> "Florian has comm

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Daniël Mantione wrote: > > > Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Michael Van Canneyt: > > > > > > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > > > > Leonardo M. Ramé schrieb: > > > > Reading a post in "public.mseide-msegui.talk", the mseide discussion > > > > list, I fo

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Daniël Mantione schrieb: > > Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Michael Van Canneyt: > >> >> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: >> >>> Leonardo M. Ramé schrieb: Reading a post in "public.mseide-msegui.talk", the mseide discussion list, I found this: "Florian has committed

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
> Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Michael Van Canneyt: > > > played only with it. > > > > Hm. I don't see what OSS or not OSS has to do with it ? > > > > Packages are IMHO a pre-requisite for any good plugin system. > > The reason is that the "library" construction requires you to write down > your

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > >> Leonardo M. Ramé schrieb: >>> Reading a post in "public.mseide-msegui.talk", the mseide discussion >>> list, I found this: >>> >>> "Florian has committed the beginning of dynamic packages support". >>> >>> With "D

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Michael Van Canneyt: > > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > > Leonardo M. Ramé schrieb: > > > Reading a post in "public.mseide-msegui.talk", the mseide discussion > > > list, I found this: > > > > > > "Florian has committed the beginning of dynami

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > Leonardo M. Ramé schrieb: > > Reading a post in "public.mseide-msegui.talk", the mseide discussion > > list, I found this: > > > > "Florian has committed the beginning of dynamic packages support". > > > > With "Dynamic Packages" you mean a platf

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Leonardo M. Ramé schrieb: > Reading a post in "public.mseide-msegui.talk", the mseide discussion > list, I found this: > > "Florian has committed the beginning of dynamic packages support". > > With "Dynamic Packages" you mean a platform independent way of > implementing something similar to >

[fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-03 Thread Leonardo M. Ram
Reading a post in "public.mseide-msegui.talk", the mseide discussion list, I found this: "Florian has committed the beginning of dynamic packages support". With "Dynamic Packages" you mean a platform independent way of implementing something similar to .Dlls (or .bpl)? without creating each lib

[fpc-devel] Solaris X86

2007-11-03 Thread Leonardo M. Ram
My company bought an amazing Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation, with two Opteron processors and Solaris 10 installed. This machine will be used as a demo server for a third party java app we sell, but since we'll be porting some Delphi services to Linux and FreeBsd, I want to test them also in Solaris

[fpc-devel] Re: [lazarus] Why TSemaphore not implemented for Win32?

2007-11-03 Thread willem
Hello, i do fully agree with you. Implementing Semaphores is very important. So i hope someone will implement this. regards Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schreef: On 10/30/07, 12 12 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why TSemaphore not implemented for Win32? AFAIK TSemaphore is just an alia