On 2016-10-04 07:11, Balázs Székely via Lazarus wrote:
Hi,
I decided to implement the online package manager(opkman) or at least
give it a try. The first stable(alpha) version is ready and it works
like this: the packages are zipped and stored in a
webserver(repository) along with a json file. I chose zip to minimize
server load. The json file contains all the necessary info about the
packages. Once installed into the IDE, the opkman downloads, then
serialize the json file into a package list. The list is displayed in
a tree. On request the packages can be downloaded or/and installed.
For now the repository is read-only, it contains only eight, well
known(I guess?) packages. The nature/type of the eight package is
irrelevant for now, since we are only testing the functionality of the
opkman. Few notes:
...
Please test! Suggestions are welcome.
With online package managers there is the problem of centrally locating
all packages at a single URL or repository, correct? So which url will
be used? Sourceforge, freepascal.org...
And then you could have mirrors if the main url is down.
Whatever happened to the freepascal package download system at the
command line? was that ever implemented? sorry I am not up to date on
it..
One advantage of a central package system is that it encourages people
to upload their packages, such as like torry.net. Whereas if each guy
has his own website and then his website goes down or he quits
programming, that package on his site gets lost and people must use
archive.org or brute force techniques to find it online...
Github is in a way a central package system but not really as it is not
a download tool for binary/releases as much as it's more of a source
only package system. Torry.net is really interesting and is the main
reason I never used Visual C++ studio because visual C++ never had
anything like torry, other than codeproject. Torry never had a way to
connect delphi directly to it, like a rubygems or the once discussed fpc
package manager tool at the command line.. whatever happened to that
idea?
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