[Lazarus] Online Package Manager question

[silvioprog]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 4:22 PM Juha Manninen via lazarus <
lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Indeed, it would be a big problem.


> (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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Silvio Clécio
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