<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#2e3436" link="#1b6acb" vlink="#2e3436"><div>On Fri, 2020-05-08 at 23:36 +0100, peter green wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>On 08/05/2020 21:32, Abou Al Montacir wrote:</pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>Creating a source dependency between a general purpose (bindings) library and an IDE is wrong in my sens.</pre></blockquote><pre>Lazarus already combines an IDE for developing applications and a library used by the applications developed in said GUI.</pre></blockquote><div>Yes indeed, and I always found this a bit wrong. FPC also does the same by mixing the compiler and the RTL.</div><div>This was justified at the beginning because both RTL/LCL and Compiler/IDE were not stable enough in term of APIs. So generally releasing both at the same time helps.</div><div>But nowadays, this may be problem.</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre><br></pre><pre>Does anything other than the QT backend for the LCL actually use libqtpas, either in Debian or otherwise?</pre></blockquote><div>I'm not aware of any, but nothing prevent to use it.</div><div><br></div><div>Theoretically, even a plain C application can use it</div><div><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir</pre></div></body></html>