And how did you help him? Telling that this is bug and that's all?
I am interested in the same issue as the original poster. I wanted to know whether this is considered a bug or a feature. Now I know what this is, thanks to the explanation given by PascalDragoon.
Some people, including me, want to understand what is happening with some of the features that out of a sudden start working in different ways.
The way in which I helped is this: I continued the discussion and by this, at some point, some interested programmers came about and stated out what is happening, why it is happening and this is the part that for me says an actual fact:
So you'll either have to live with that or open a feature request on the Lazarus bug tracker that the IDE cleans up these files.
Why this to me is important information? It is because of the following question:
How can you know whether this is normal behavior or not of the IDE since the previous versions worked differently?Knowing whether this is
a feature or
a bug or
a reason for a feature request makes a big difference in the long run.