On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:05:24 +0100
Ales Katona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
If you mean that the package sources are installed read only: yes
> 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>".
Possible.
> 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.
Maybe improve fppackage instead?
> 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
Why missing?
> I'd also propose to add the fpc package to lazarus deb repository.
Why?
Mattias
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