[Lazarus] The "Publish Package" functionality is horribly broken.

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 26 May 2017 09:21:32 +0100
Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I noticed this menu option in the fpgui_toolkit.lpk package. So I 
> selected it and made sure the “include” filter selects all files, and 
> nothing is “excluded”. This clicked okay. After that I had a look in the 
> destination directory, and there was only 9 file. Yet the 
> fpgui_toolkit.lpk package actually has 117 files. See the screenshot 
> showing the result (blue window) vs the actual package files.
> 
> So again, what is the function of “publish package”? It it is meant to 
> copy all units from a package to a destination directory (*), it fails 
> miserably at that.

It copies the package directory with some options.
The fpgui_toolkit directory only contains the 9 files. The other files
are in parent or sibling directories.

It now checks if some unit/inc path are outside and disables the
"publish" menu item.
 
> I'm using Lazarus 1.9.0 r54792 FPC 2.6.4 x86_64-freebsd-gtk2
> 
> 
> * - Seems that is supposed to be its function, based on the wiki help
>      page. But clearly it doesn't do a good job.
>      [http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Package_Editor#More]

I added a note of this limitation.

Mattias