Hi,

I don't know whether someone knows TurboPower's Abbrevia: it's a component suite which can handle some kinds of archive files: .zip, .gz, .tar (and .cab on windows)

I have compiled it using FPC, and it seems to work fine, after some fixes in the libc unit, and virtually no changes to the original code except fixing their own _broken_ linux support.

However: there are some visual components, and most examples are visual examples. I have not worked with those yet.

I think it would be a good idea to try and make this into a lazarus package ?

Since this kind of situation will happen more regularly (conversion of Delphi code to lazarus), wouldn't it be good to set up some kind of repository for this kind of stuff ?

Michael.

Since this kind of situation will happen more regularly (conversion of Delphi code to lazarus), wouldn't it be good to set up some kind of repository for this kind of stuff ?

Yes!

I've converted a few graphical components that are ready to post along with some others that are well along but awaiting variant support that the 1.1 compiler will hopefully provide. I have this stuff archived, but it would probably make more sense to put it into a public CVS. That way if I'm not available to complete them when 1.1 becomes official, someone else could.

Along with a repository, it might be equally useful to come up with a way of coordinating who is converting what... otherwise people working independently might end up doing the same package.

-Tom

Good idea. Who will do it and where?

Mattias