[Lazarus] Online Package Manager

[Michalis Kamburelis]

2017-04-12 14:56 GMT+02:00 Lars via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org>:
> Is github okay with this idea though as they are really not a download
> system like sourceforge or google code...
>
> They are more for source revision and not so much for final release
> downloads, although, this needs to be clarified as you can indeed just make
> a tag to release.. But as soon as you start distributing binaries on github,
> it sort of violates their policy. But, I suppose pacakages are not binaries
> like a final exe release of a program to be shipped.  And lazarus/fpc is
> fairly uncommon and not very popular so github is likely not going to notice
> a bandwidth increase on their servers anyway. I think github is against
> becoming a download website to reduce their costs and focus on being a
> source revision system, not a distribution system like sourceforge.
>

GitHub is absolutely fine with uploading binary packages as a release.
You can make a release on GitHub where a specific version of your
source is accompanied by your binaries.
https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/

Regards,
Michalis