Hi all,

As you might know there is an online repository with packages which you can use with Free Pascal.

It is now possible to add your own packges at https://fppkg.cnoc.nl/.

At the moment the packages which are installed together with Free Pascal are availabe, plus some packages I added myself. Like log4fpc (a clone of log4delphi), dcpcrypt and some others.

Everyone can log-in with a bug-tracker of forum account. Note that every fpc-version has it's own repository. And that there are two flavours: testing and production. Everyone can add packages to testing. For now adding to production is only possible for administrators.

I've tried to explain how it works over here:
https://fppkg.cnoc.nl/documentation

I'm really curious which packages will appear...

Regards,

Joost.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 8:43 AM Joost van der Sluis via lazarus <

This is good news and thank you for publishing! 🎉

I'm going to study how it works and publish my packages there.

I have some naive suggestions. After all packages were loaded, the button "Add package" disappeared, so after a long scrolling down I found it again at bottom of the site, so it would be nice to move it to the top (maybe on the right of label "A complete list of all packages"). The other suggestion would to add a new menu item called "Add package". And the last one would to change the "Login/Logout" cursor style to "hand pointer". 😅

Thank you more one time for publishing it!

Does this mean that every forum user can post fpc packages? Will there be a review? I guess we will drown in garbage. Forum users, don't misunderstand me, I am not saying that you are posting poor software in general, but we've had some evil-minded guys out there in the forum. Sorry I am thinking of the worst: will there be access rights so that a poster can only modify his own packages? (CCR for example does not have them - we're lucky that nobody has abused it so far, but here not every forum user has access).

Op 19-04-2020 om 19:59 schreef Werner Pamler via lazarus:

As you can see here: https://fppkg.cnoc.nl/documentation there are some regulations.

When things get out of control, we can change them.

For now: if you add a new package, no-one can see it and no-one can download it until a manager (atm: that's me) approves it.

Once approved, the maintainer (or admin) of the package can change it at will. And the changes will become available in the test-repository. (not instantly, atm this is a manual step from the administrator. But it might get automated for the testing-repository in the future) This also means that the package will be available to all users that adapt their fppkg-configuration to use the test-repository. (They might do that, for example, to test their own packages)

And once again, only administrators can add packages to the production repository.

Also note that the system does a test-build of packages. For now only a x86_64-linux, but when people start really using it, I can invest some time and add some other platforms.

Regards,

Joost.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 8:43 AM Joost van der Sluis via lazarus <

I have been trying to update my package (zip) there, but the page always raises the following error:

Failed to upload sources. Http failure response for https://fppkg.cnoc.nl/repository/package/brookframework/3.0.4: 400 Bad Request

Also, it seems it is not possible to update the package "Category".

Is this a bug, or something I'm doing wrong? :-/

I forgot to show the steps I have been trying:

1. generated the "fpmake.pp" automatically from the .lpk via Lazarus IDE
2. followed those steps <https://fppkg.cnoc.nl/documentation> from fppkg docs
3. uploaded the "brooktardigrade-5.0.source.zip
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wzIaR9887upt0iTjfdND5dfFF-kOUYDx>" generated by fppkg archine (*)

(*) the fppkg archive raises a lot of warnings like:

<snip>
Warning: Unexpected response status code: 301
Warning: Source file "BrookTardigrade.pas" from package brooktardigrade not found for cpunone-aros
<snip>

but I don't understand what they mean.

Finally I found the problem, it is related to my fpmake.pp.

Please ignore my messages and sorry for noising!

Op 17-04-2020 om 14:24 schreef silvioprog via lazarus:

I saw the Brookframework and approved it. But now you have to add it to the (testing) repository yourself. I could do it, but normally this is a step package-maintainers can do themselves.

Once done, I'll add it to production also.

Regards,

Joost.