On Mon, 10 Aug 2015, Juha Manninen wrote:
It may be rather easy using HTTP or FTP download like fppkg is doing.
Some of its code can be used.
The package list must be one file (just like fppkg uses) to minimize
server load.
The package format cannot be shared with fppkg though.
Why not ? fppkg just needs a zip file, and expects a fpmake.pp.
The fpmake.pp is easily translatable to lazarus package and vice versa.
If additional functionalities are needed, we can add whatever is necessary.
I don't think the server load will be a problem. The packages contain
only textual source files and are compressed. They will be small
enough.
Allowing users to comment and rate the packages may be the most
difficult part but it is not needed initially. It will require
authentication and dealing with malicious attacks and whatever.
Read-only is easy.
Aradeonas, if you start to implement this, you should reuse the fppkg
code as much as possible. The design looks good.
I hope so :)
The fpmake related stuff and the package format cannot be reused.
See above, why not ?
Also the client must be a Lazarus IDE package with a nice GUI instead
of a cmd line program.
fpmake was designed to have a GUI from day 1.
It was thought through, you know :)
All that fpmake does is register some units and then start the
builder/installer.
A descendent of the builder/installer can be created to start a GUI.
If someone needs an explanation of how this is done, I can provide whatever is
needed.
As for repositories: I have no problem letting the initial/master repositories
be hosted
on the FPC server. Any package can be uploaded, dependencies are not an issue.
The only thing I ask is that if a web-interface is made, and it needs a
database,
it depends only on postgres or firebird. No mysql. Preferably the backend of the
web interface is made with FPC, but any other technology is fine
(PHP being at the bottom of the list because I consider it a security leak).
Michael.
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