Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!nmouawad From: nmouawad@watmath.waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) Subject: Re: Using TP5.0 TURBO.TPL with TP6.0 Message-ID: <1991May8.154421.22729@watmath.waterloo.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo Date: Wed, 8 May 1991 15:44:21 GMT Lines: 52 In article <1991May8.124525.11539@e2big.mko.dec.com> granoff@vaxwrk.enet.dec.com (Mark H. Granoff) writes: >In article , janc@p.tvt.se (Jan Carlsson) writes: >> >>I have a TP5.0 TURBO.TPL with several library units that I need too use. >>The problem is that my compiler is version 6.0. The compiler dosen't like >>this file so my question is: Is there any possibility to change the .TPL >>file to make it usable with the 6.0 compiler ? > >Nope. Your problem stems from the fact that units compiled under any version >of Turbo Pascal are incompatible with any other version of the Turbo Pascal >compiler. In other words, units compiled under TP5.5 can not be used with >TP6.0. > >At the inroduction of TP6.0 in Boston, during a question and answer period, I >asked Borland if they ever planned to have any kind of backward compatibility >for compiled units. They said, "No." > while the absence of backward compatibility is something of a nuisance, I can live with it as long as TP is moving onward towards making our life as programmers easier. I don't want TP to become a standard ! Look how hard it is to move standards ! I like the fluidity of the various changes and I am expecting more... After dabbling for a while with Turbo Vision, I sens that this is but the begining of the story. I expect the next version of TV to be somewhat incompatible with the current one. And I am prepared to live with it as long as the changes are worth it. My feeling is that Turbo Vision is nothing more but a gentle introduction to concurrent (or if you like Multi-tasking) processes. The idle handler is rudimentary, yet this kind of environment begs for concurent processing and I feel that that is where we are heading. The way TP is growing makes me think of a sphere: growing uniformely in various directions: modules, objects, assembler, event-handling ... concurency seems to be one of the next steps. After all, TP *is* moving quickly, and we had better get used to these annual changes. Nobody said that driving a car was intuitive. --Naji. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Naji Mouawad | nmouawad@watmath.waterloo.edu | | University |---------------------------------------------------| | Of Waterloo | "The Stranger in us is our most familiar Self" |