I wanted to ask about plans to support better packaging of lazarus and
apps made by lazarus on Linux distros in the future. For reference I'll
use .deb style here but I'm sure .rpm will have to be quite similar.
1. Does lazarus support root/readonly locations yet? (including support
for installing components) This is crucial for everything really.
2. I think lazarus should get separated into lazarus-lcl-<widgetset>
packages, lazarus-ide and lazarus-tools (lazbuild and friends) with a
"dummy" all-package like lazarus and a "dummy" lcl package which will
simply default to per-distro widgetset (eg: qt on KDE distroes in the
future, gtk2 on gnome). So if use installs "lazarus" they get dependency
"lazarus-lcl" which in turn installs "lazarus-lcl-<whatever>".
3. With lazarus-tools, users can easily create lazarus/fpc-made packages
for whatever they made. They will simply specify the dependency for
lazarus-lcl-<specific> for binary packages and lazarus-lcl for -src
packages and use lazarus-tools (lazbuild) to automate building. 3rd
party components should be of-course packagable as well.
I'm not asking for someone to do it, but for input, and if it's viewed
as feasible by you guys. I'm currently about to release a LaTeX IDE I
made with Lazarus and am quite.. blocked in regards to proper packaging
and auto-building of the thing.
So.. what do you think? Of course, fpc will have to be packaged properly
as well, which means addition of the missing "fpc-source" debian package :D
I'd also propose to add the fpc package to lazarus deb repository.
Ales
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