[Lazarus] Online Package Manager errors ?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2020, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote:

>> Don't distribute binaries, only sources. The binary may not work on all
>> distributions, you'd need to provide one for all platforms (which you may
>> not have yourself). It may be outdated, no security fixed applied etc..
>> 
>> Michael.
>
> Hmm, how about archive and/or object files for static linking ? An approach 
> that I saw in mormot ( I don't know if it is the same in OPK I didn't check 
> the package there ... )

Not good, you need to provide this for all possible architectures, and that's not
possible for most people.

And I would say this is a big flaw in the way mormot operates.

Distributing binaries is simply a big no-no. You must rely on the package
manager of your system for that.

Michael.