[Lazarus] fppkg and lazarus packages

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Fri Sep 3 10:12:02 CEST 2010



On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Op 2010-09-02 22:05, Joost van der Sluis het geskryf:
>>>
>>> fppkg update
>>> fppkg install lnet
>>>
>>> Check if everything is ok with 'fppkg list'
>
> I get the following error. I've got latest FPC 2.4.3 in my path under
> 64-bit Linux.
>
> ------------------------------------
> ~ $ rm -rf ~/.fppkg
> ~ $ fppkg update
> ~ $ fppkg list
> Name                 Installed        Available
> lnet                 -                0.6.4-2446
> ~ $ fppkg install lnet
> The FPC Package tool encountered the following error:
> [lnet] Package fcl-process <none> is not available
> ------------------------------------
>
>
> BTW:
> How can we publish our own package to that list produced by 'fppkg list'. I
> have been wanting to add fpgui to that list since fppkg came to be.
>
> I think the whole fppkg concept is great (almost like perl's CPAN concept).
> Unfortunately they FPC rollout of this feature (fppkg and fpmake.pp) is so
> slow - nearly useless. :-(

The original idea was from CTAN (CPAN for TeX). It is correct that the
rollout is slow, but remember that FPC is a small team.

But you are welcome to contribute.

Michael.




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