[Lazarus] Online Package Manager question

[Juha Manninen]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 8:47 PM silvioprog via lazarus <
lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

> What do you think about to create a new project "OPM"
> at bugs.freepascal? ☺ This way, the package's author just opens an new
> issue categorized with "OPM" providing steps/requirements he wants to
> upgrade his package, making it public and available for
> future consultation/reference.
>

That sounds dangerous. We would get bug reports of components delivered by
OPM although they are maintained elsewhere. Actually it has happened
already.

(MinGW follows something like this, allowing merging from Github's PRs to
> their upstream)
>

Then they both must be in the same source tree somehow. I don't know about
their process.
Note, the sources of packages delivered by OPM are not merged to Lazarus
source tree. They are just copied.

Juha
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