[Lazarus] fppkg front end

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 14 May 2011, Joost van der Sluis wrote:

> 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...

It is a matter of days. Server is already done, I am now testing it.
HTTP Client should be even more simple.

I don't know what you're talking about "zip files" ?
I commit everything I do in subversion.

Michael.