[Lazarus] fppkg front end

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 15:46 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 14 May 2011, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> >
> > Or lnet, or an lnet-light with different unit-names has to be added to a
> > default Lazarus-installation.
> 
> We don't need lnet. LNet is a full-blown TCP/IP suite. When all you need 
> for fppg is a leightweight HTTP client, able to fetch a file.
> This can be easily written in 30 minutes on top of ssockets, and distributed 
> by default.
> 
> I looked at nYume/aservia as HTTP server, and decided I can do better than that,
> so I'm currently working on a simple HTTP server. While I'm at it, I'll 
> write a small HTTP client. It can then be used by default in fppkg, 
> so we can have lnet entirely optional (just as wget or synapse)

Is that a matter of days or weeks? Because else we can commit the
lnet-light version for now. It's not very easy to work with two people
on a project, using numbered zip files in a bug tracker as versioning
system...

Joost.