Re: [Lazarus] Online Package Manager Questions

2025-01-13 Thread Martin Frb via lazarus
On 13/01/2025 19:30, Werner Pamler via lazarus wrote: Am 13.01.2025 um 02:59 schrieb Kostas Michalopoulos via lazarus: Would it be possible to do some periodic 'smoke tests' where all packages are compiled against latest (main) Lazarus (preferably with latest/main FPC too, at least as an extra

Re: [Lazarus] Online Package Manager Questions

2025-01-13 Thread Werner Pamler via lazarus
Am 13.01.2025 um 02:59 schrieb Kostas Michalopoulos via lazarus: Would it be possible to do some periodic 'smoke tests' where all packages are compiled against latest (main) Lazarus (preferably with latest/main FPC too, at least as an extra pass - i.e. main branch Lazarus compiled with main bra

Re: [Lazarus] Online Package Manager Questions

2025-01-12 Thread Kostas Michalopoulos via lazarus
On 1/13/25 12:14 AM, Werner Pamler via lazarus wrote: To be honest, once a package has made it into OPM it has a "safe life" there. There is no chance to re-test all existing packages at all. But sometimes, usually after changes in FPC or in the LCL, users report in the forum that packages do n

Re: [Lazarus] Online Package Manager Questions

2025-01-12 Thread Werner Pamler via lazarus
Am 12.01.2025 um 22:12 schrieb Marc Weustink via lazarus: Please note that the opm email address mentioned should be sent to lazarus-ide.ORG and not to .COM You are right. Sorry for the typo.-- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org h

Re: [Lazarus] Online Package Manager Questions

2025-01-12 Thread Werner Pamler via lazarus
Am 12.01.2025 um 11:51 schrieb Tony Whyman: You said "There should be at least one sample project. Otherwise I have no way to test whether the code is working (I am not willing to write test projects for foreign code)." This implies that you are going to compile, test and look at the results

Re: [Lazarus] Online Package Manager Questions

2025-01-12 Thread Marc Weustink via lazarus
Please note that the opm email address mentioned should be sent to lazarus-ide.ORG and not to .COM Marc On January 11, 2025 7:50:32 PM GMT+01:00, Werner Pamler via lazarus wrote: >First of all: OPM was written and maintained by Balazs Szekely (aka GetMem). >For a year, however, I have not hea

Re: [Lazarus] Online Package Manager Questions

2025-01-12 Thread Tony Whyman via lazarus
Werner, I can certainly sympathise with with your workload for maintaining the OPM archive, and your reply was very useful. There are two threads that lead from this for me. The first is to get IBX on OPM up-to-date and that we should deal with by direct EMail. The second is really more gener

Re: [Lazarus] Online Package Manager Questions

2025-01-11 Thread Werner Pamler via lazarus
First of all: OPM was written and maintained by Balazs Szekely (aka GetMem). For a year, however, I have not heard from him any more - I really really hope that he is doing fine. For the moment OPM is maintained by myself. Your questions: Am 11.01.2025 um 16:17 schrieb Tony Whyman via lazarus

[Lazarus] Online Package Manager Questions

2025-01-11 Thread Tony Whyman via lazarus
I recently had a support question for IBX for Lazarus and for an issue that was fixed a couple of years ago. The response was inevitably a "please upgrade to the next version". However, what surprised me was that the user came back pointing out that he was using the most recent version of IBX