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

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Joost van der Sluis wrote: Op zondag 04-11-2007 om 00:34 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef 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

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Schnell
Look, I don't try to convince you that Lazarus or FPC should make extensive use of packages - we worked years without it and we worked very well, If using packages is the way to go to make installing visual components in Lazarus, IMHO it's essential to use them there ASAP. It would be

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

2007-11-05 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op maandag 05-11-2007 om 10:44 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Michael Van Canneyt: On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Joost van der Sluis wrote: Op zondag 04-11-2007 om 00:34 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Michael Van Canneyt: On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Joost van der Sluis wrote: Op zaterdag

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-05 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:08:31 +0100 Michael Schnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look, I don't try to convince you that Lazarus or FPC should make extensive use of packages - we worked years without it and we worked very well, If using packages is the way to go to make installing visual

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

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Joost van der Sluis wrote: Op maandag 05-11-2007 om 10:44 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Michael Van Canneyt: On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Joost van der Sluis wrote: Op zondag 04-11-2007 om 00:34 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Michael Van Canneyt: On Sat, 3 Nov

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Schnell
If you really want to write C plugin, then I can add a unit to the IDEIntf with some common functions without OOP. I don't intend to doing that right now. But one of the most commonly used and supposedly complex and well defined plugin systems open to 3rd party providers is Steinberg

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

2007-11-05 Thread Yury Sidorov
From: Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] We could try to compile Borlands' VCL code with FPC, of course, but then there is the problem that the midas library is a black box, available only for windows i386, which kind of defeats the purpose of the whole exercise.. There is open source

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

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Yury Sidorov wrote: From: Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] We could try to compile Borlands' VCL code with FPC, of course, but then there is the problem that the midas library is a black box, available only for windows i386, which kind of defeats the purpose of

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

2007-11-05 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op maandag 05-11-2007 om 12:37 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Michael Van Canneyt: On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Joost van der Sluis wrote: Op maandag 05-11-2007 om 10:44 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Michael Van Canneyt: On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Joost van der Sluis wrote: Op zondag

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

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Joost van der Sluis wrote: Why ? Because we make use of it in 3200 places, and recoding this is not an option :-) Ok, then there's the question: Do we want to provide the ability to use existing DB-code with fpc? It's a serious question, because if decide to do

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-05 Thread L
If you really want to write C plugin, then I can add a unit to the IDEIntf with some common functions without OOP. I don't intend to doing that right now. But one of the most commonly used and supposedly complex and well defined plugin systems open to 3rd party providers is Steinberg

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

2007-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 05/11/2007, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is open source midas.dll implementation called HyperBase. http://www.vglib.com/link-4.html It can be made compilable by FPC to different platforms... Yes, I have it since a very long time :-) But it contains bugs :/ But

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

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 05/11/2007, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is open source midas.dll implementation called HyperBase. http://www.vglib.com/link-4.html It can be made compilable by FPC to different platforms... Yes, I have it

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

2007-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 05/11/2007, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is something like this possible with FPC? I guess the first question is, do we have a webserver component for FPC? Secondly, does FPC support SOAP? Yes on both accounts. Excellent, something new to experiment with. Where could I

Re: [fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

2007-11-05 Thread Bogusław Brandys
Daniël Mantione wrote: 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 for

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

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 05/11/2007, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is something like this possible with FPC? I guess the first question is, do we have a webserver component for FPC? Secondly, does FPC support SOAP? Yes on both accounts.

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

2007-11-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 05/11/2007, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should, yes. Better yet is to write an Apache module. A breeze with FPC these days... I know nothing about Apache modules, but from you comment, I guess I need to look into it. * Can they hold a DB connection open as well? * Are

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

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 05/11/2007, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should, yes. Better yet is to write an Apache module. A breeze with FPC these days... I know nothing about Apache modules, but from you comment, I guess I need to look into it.