fppkg is perfectly suitable for freepascal packages. Nice clean code. A lazarus package is different(although it has some similarities). Converting between the two package type was too much for me. I quickly gave up.
Balázs On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > > > 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 >
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