[Lazarus] fppkg front end

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Wed, 11 May 2011, Darius Blaszyk wrote:

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> On May 11, 2011, at 10:51 AM, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
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>> On Wed, 11 May 2011, Darius Blaszyk wrote:
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>>>>> I would say A as well. However I have no idea what you mean with
>>>>> virtual units. What are they? Also if I'm not mistaking fppkg lives in
>>>>> utils. Should this be moved to packages then?
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>>>> That's exactly the idea. When those units are moved to packages, they
>>>> are available (virtual) to everyone. Lazarus and non-Lazarus. (So making
>>>> them a Lazarus package is not the right way, imho)
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>>>> Problems of this option can be that the fppkg version installed on a
>>>> system is different then the version which is used when building the
>>>> application. The library solves that problem.
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>>> Joost, will you move fppkg to ./packages? Do I need to create a report for it?
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>> Just the units need to be moved imho, the actual program not really ?
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> You're right on that. On a side note, I would like to use some of the features that fppkg implements as well (like setting up the repositories). Is it OK to move these functions to a separate class or unit? This way both fppkg as the GUI can use the same functions and do not need to implement them separately.

Sure...

Michael.