Thijs van Dien

A proper way to make design-time packages part of my project rather than of my IDE is just about the only thing that could get me to upgrade Delphi ever again. I'm sure it will be technically challenging, and that any implementation would be buggy for a long time (as with most even mildly complicated new features), but done well it would be a big step forward. Yes, packages would have to be made compatible with it, but the same was true for GetIt. As long as the old style "IDE packages" keep working too, I don't see the problem. It could be a chance to streamline how packages must be written and hopefully adding any paths would no longer be necessary for such "project packages". If it will still be possible for such packages to make hard to reverse changes to the IDE at runtime, some kind of sandboxing would be needed.

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