On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:
The online package manager works well and its operation is smooth thanks to threaded code. Earlier discussions have recommended fppkg. http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/Lazarus-An-online-package-manager-tt4043469.html#none I discussed with GetMem earlier and he says fppkg is not very well suited here. I must take his word on this issue because he is the only person so far to make a functional online package manager. "Lazarus packagemanager" from Darius Blaszyk uses fppkg but does not work. The "Aarre" initiative from Mattias and myself has no functional code either. Several people (including myself) had plans to write such a package manager ... but nobody did until now. My goal is to include this GetMem's work in Lazarus sources. It also means commit access for him. Now the code has copies of some FCL classes and a copy of VirtualTreeview. These can be seen as temporary copies. The goal is to integrate management of online package and local packages. The Install/Uninstall Packages window in Lazarus would then show also online packages and this new VirtualTreeview based GUI would show local packages. In essence the new GUI will be an alternative to the old GUI. Competition is good. What do you people say?
The info regarding the fppkg manager is not quite correct. There is a testing website for submitting fppkg packages (it's not yet
published, though). So why fppkg is not suitable is a bit of a mystery to me. Michael. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
