Re: [Lazarus] lazdebian.lpk - Create Debian package from exiting Lazarus Project

2012-09-30 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2012-09-30 16:08, Bernd wrote: > I made a Lazarus package for creating Debian packages from Lazarus projects: Thank you very much! Exactly what I needed as an old-time Debian GNU/Linux-man. Grx HdV -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.

Re: [Lazarus] Parsing command line options

2012-09-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2012-09-10 23:37, J.A. de Vries wrote: > You might be right. I seem to remember that the native perl > implementation of getopts parses the argumentstring as a plain string > and builds from that. I could be wrong though. I'll look it up later > this week, as soon as I can f

Re: [Lazarus] Parsing command line options

2012-09-10 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2012-09-10 17:59, Bernd wrote: > 2012/9/10 J.A. de Vries : > >> Might I make a suggestion? Why try and invent the wheel ourselves? >> There's a very good library named getopts that has been used by masses >> of programmers for years now. Maybe we could learn from

Re: [Lazarus] Parsing command line options

2012-09-10 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2012-09-10 17:39, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: > We have this unit (getopt, it is documented?). But the code for that is > for the receiving end, i.e. used by the program that is started. Not for > the program that starts another program. Thanks for the clear explanation of the situation.

Re: [Lazarus] Parsing command line options

2012-09-10 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2012-09-10 15:19, patspiper wrote: >> >> Your message is a very good example why the whole splitting and escaping >> approach was abandonned. Every issue was considered to be "just add >> this, >> since then it works for me now", but after multiple years of such >> changes, >> there are still

[Lazarus] Help needed building a small dictionary application

2012-01-18 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, I am not really sure if this type of message is appreciated on this list or not. I tried looking it up on the Lazarus-site, but didn't find anything on it. My apologies if you think I shouldn't have sent this. Quite a few years ago I was a reasonably decent Delphi programmer. But after my