Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0rc2 and fppkg

2015-11-05 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op 26-10-15 om 15:14 schreef Joost van der Sluis: Op 26-10-15 om 14:29 schreef Sven Barth: > The description is available, but not easy accessible in fppkg. We should add some sort of webpage with the available packages and more information on those. IMHO that should be made available with

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0rc2 and fppkg

2015-11-05 Thread Sven Barth
Am 05.11.2015 17:54 schrieb "Joost van der Sluis" : > > Op 26-10-15 om 15:14 schreef Joost van der Sluis: > >> Op 26-10-15 om 14:29 schreef Sven Barth: >>> >>> >>> > The description is available, but not easy accessible in fppkg. We should add some sort of webpage with the available

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0rc2 and fppkg

2015-10-26 Thread Anthony Walter
Okay, I'll check into more a bit later. As a package manager, where is the description of packages? How is anyone to know what webdesign is and what it does other than by just looking at the package name and perhaps trying to google it? The first google result for "fpc webdesign package" leads

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0rc2 and fppkg

2015-10-26 Thread Anthony Walter
I got it working, somewhat. It would seem that you have to duplicate the entire FPC lib tree underneath {UserDir}.fppkg/ The instructions at the page referenced in my last post are very unclear about that. I suppose under normal fpc install this is needed because the lib files are typically

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0rc2 and fppkg

2015-10-26 Thread Jonas Maebe
Anthony Walter wrote on Mon, 26 Oct 2015: I got it working, somewhat. It would seem that you have to duplicate the entire FPC lib tree underneath {UserDir}.fppkg/ That is not necessary. However, the request was to test with FPC 3.0.0rc2 and from your previous mail it seemed that you were

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0rc2 and fppkg

2015-10-26 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op 26-10-15 om 09:19 schreef Anthony Walter: I got it working, somewhat. It would seem that you have to duplicate the entire FPC lib tree underneath {UserDir}.fppkg/ No, that should not be necessary. Fppkg uses two locations to install packages. One is {UserDir}.fppkg (the local version),

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0rc2 and fppkg

2015-10-26 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op 26-10-15 om 12:25 schreef Anthony Walter: Okay, I'll check into more a bit later. As a package manager, where is the description of packages? How is anyone to know what webdesign is and what it does other than by just looking at the package name and perhaps trying to google it? The

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0rc2 and fppkg

2015-10-26 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op 26-10-15 om 14:29 schreef Sven Barth: > The description is available, but not easy accessible in fppkg. We should add some sort of webpage with the available packages and more information on those. IMHO that should be made available with fppkg as well. Other package managers like

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0rc2 and fppkg

2015-10-26 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op 26-10-15 om 08:43 schreef Anthony Walter: *Nothing works for me.* You are using fpc 3.1.1. The repository for fpc 3.1.1 only contains the 'extra' packages, like embweb, gecko etc. This is because all the other packages can constantly change... *Following the instructions at

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0rc2 and fppkg

2015-10-26 Thread Sven Barth
Am 26.10.2015 13:17 schrieb "Joost van der Sluis" : > > Op 26-10-15 om 12:25 schreef Anthony Walter: > >> Okay, I'll check into more a bit later. >> >> As a package manager, where is the description of packages? How is anyone to know what webdesign is and what it does other than by

[fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0rc2 and fppkg

2015-10-25 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Hi all, One of the new (or rather improved) features of fpc 3.0.0 is the Free Pascal packages repository, or shortly fppkg. Basically this is an online repository in which you can find several Free Pascal libraries that you can use in your projects. It would be nice if some people can test