[fpc-devel] fppkg testing

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Currently there is only one package available when I do the following
>
> ================================
> $ fppkg list
> Name                 Installed    Available
> lnet                 -            0.6.3-0
> ================================
>
> How do we install other packages?

Currently, not yet. It is a test.
Later on: with a registration procedure on the website.

>
> Where do they go?

That will depend on the website :-)

>
> In what format are they? Zip? tar.gz?

zip.

>
> I did a "fppkg download lnet". Where did it download that package too?

~/.fppkg/

>
>
> My idea is to test this package thingy a bit more and maybe create packages 
> for fpGUI and DUnit2 and maybe even tiOPF.
>
> I'll look in the latest documentation in SVN if there is some more details 
> regarding "fpkpg" and maybe it answers some of my questions.

No documentation yet, I didn't get around to that. But it's planned before the
2.4 release.

Michael.

>
>
>
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
>
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