Is fppkg a dead initiative? Or is this ever going to go "live" for other developers or even FPC to push packages to the repository too? If so, what is the requirements to get access, or should we all host our own repositories?

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$ fppkg list
Name Installed Available
lnet - 0.6.3-0
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fppkg was announced over a year ago. It was said that as soon as sufficient testing was done, other packages would become available. I guess this confirms that fppkg is a 'dead in the water' initiative - not even FPC is using it. :-( It sounded like such a nice idea though.

Regards,
- Graeme -

It is not dead, but it takes time to set it up.

Michael.

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

Is fppkg a dead initiative?

It is only sleeping.

Jonas

Michael Van Canneyt wrote

It is not dead, but it takes time to set it up.

Good to know. In 2009-01 you mentioned in a message that it needs more testing. So what can I do to help the testing process? I already have a 90% working fpmake.pp for fpGUI, which I believe is required for 'fppkg archive' support or something.

You also mentioned hosting your own repository. How do I do this and how do I tell fppkg where to look for this new repository.

Looking at this file, the syntax is pretty simple, but how do I tell fppkg to look at my packages.xml file on my server?

http://www.freepascal.org/repository/packages.xml

Regards,
- Graeme -

Jonas Maebe wrote

It is only sleeping.

Pining for the fjords?

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Jeff.