[Lazarus] Only VCL-compatible components in LCL

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:03:36 +0000
> Martin Frb <lazarus at mfriebe.de> wrote:

>> What the CCR need is either one release manager, or every contributor on 
>> the CCR doing that them self. Then for every Lazarus release a set of 
>> tested source archives could be offered for download, containing the 
>> version of each of the packages that works with the release.
>> If maintainers want to add such archives we can probably find a place to 
>> upload them all for download. Maybe it is even possible to add them to 
>> sourceforge in a separate folder. Then the CCR had the same visibility 
>> as the Lazarus releases themself
> 
> +1
> The CCR contains packages with different directory layouts. To make the
> CCR a repository the packages need to follow some rules. And each
> package needs some information, e.g. what platforms they support.

And it needs a decent index, with up-to-date links. Whenever I've gone 
looking for something I've had to resort to Google to find where it 
actually lives.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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