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Moving to gitlab.

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Michael Van Canneyt

Hello,

Some of you may have seen this on the lazarus list: During the upcoming weekend we will be moving to GitLab.

During this time, there may be interruptions to 2 of our services:

- SVN will become unavailable permanently.

- Mantis/Bugtracker will become unavailable.
  * It will be taken offline.
  * A forwarder to the GitLab issue tracker will be installed after all was reworked, so old 'view' links will continue to work.

The forum and mailing lists should not be affected and continue to work as normal.

The list of new Urls will be posted when the move has been done.

We plan a read-only GitHub mirror.

GitHub advertises that the repositories can be read with an svn client too. So for those needing read only access, there will be an svn link.

Michael.

John Lee
to Michael Van Canneyt

I use viewvc to look at repository - is there an equivalent when everyting is on gitlaB? tia john

On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 13:32, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <

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wrote: Hello, Some of you may have seen this on the lazarus list: During the upcoming weekend we will be moving to GitLab. During this time, there may be interruptions to 2 of our services: - SVN will become unavailable permanently. - Mantis/Bugtracker will become unavailable. * It will be taken offline. * A forwarder to the GitLab issue tracker will be installed after all was reworked, so old 'view' links will continue to work. The forum and mailing lists should not be affected and continue to work as normal. The list of new Urls will be posted when the move has been done. We plan a read-only GitHub mirror. GitHub advertises that the repositories can be read with an svn client too. So for those needing read only access, there will be an svn link. Michael._______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Mgr. Janusz Chmiel
to John Lee: I use viewvc to look at repository - is there an equivalent when everyting is on gitlaB?…

Dear specialists,

    Because Google  require that every developer, who would like to publish on Google Play store must build his apps by using Android 30 target, there is A question. Is it necessary to build PPCJVM Android target units such as system.pu to use this newest Android target 30? Or it is not necessary? I have tried to use older generated units and there was no problem, when I have used Android 31 target, because 31 Android platform can be automatically downloaded by using latest Android studio when running it after installation.

Unfortunately, there is very big issue, which can prevent developers to use PPCJVM to create apps for Play store. Google also require, that programmer will publish app by using new format called Android App Bundle.

Thank you very much for yours questions related to recompilation of system unit and other.

I do not assume, that Android studio code will allow us to simply put .class files or other files somewhere generated by PPCJVM or Apache Ant and simply create app bundle for us from other code than The code, which have been created from Android Studio. May be, that there could be some work around, but I do not know about it.

Mgr. Janusz Chmiel
to Michael Van Canneyt: Yes; The gitlab interface. https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/testconversion3/-/commits…

It should be possible to create App bundle file by using instructions available here.

https://developer.android.com/studio/build/building-cmdline

In The article session formatted as Heading number 4 named Build your app bundle using bundletool

Sure, it would had to be necessary to automate some tasks by using .bat or Sh script related to file copy to specific new folder. But for my personal needs, .apk format is The best choice, since app bundle format is not suitable for installing apps on The Android devices. It is intermediate format used by Google so they can sign and create .apk themselves according to GOogle policy. So it is possible to automatically generate .apk files for various devices and Android versions.