[fpc-devel] fppkg question

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 10 May 2011, Darius Blaszyk wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've created a trivial front end for fppkg (see lazarus mailing list) but working on this I realized that they are not grouped in any way. Currently with approx. 70 packages this is not a real problem, but if the system will get used more widely it will be impossible to deduct the purpose (and possibly other info) from the package just by it's name.
>
> Therefore I would like to request a new command named "info" that retrieves the info for a package from packages.xml. I would also like to add some more info in this file for a package:
>
> - the topic that organizes the packages (FPC core / DB / buttons / charts / dialogs / etc)
> - keywords to make it possible to search freely
> - support contact (official / community)
>
> See the following movie on youtube on a plugin system that has some of these features: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9yyJmh3dyU&feature=player_embedded
>
> Are / were there any plans ever in this direction? Am I free to create a couple of patches?

It exists.

If you look at fprepos.pp :

   TFPPackage = Class(TStreamCollectionItem)
     Property Name : String Read FName Write SetName;
     Property Author : String Read FAuthor Write FAuthor;
     Property Version : TFPVersion Read FVersion Write SetVersion;
     Property License : String Read FLicense Write FLicense;
     Property Description : String Read FDescription Write FDescription;
     Property HomepageURL : String Read FHomepageURL Write FHomepageURL;
     Property DownloadURL : String Read FDownloadURL Write FDownloadURL;
     Property FileName : String Read GetFileName Write FFileName;
     Property Email : String Read FEmail Write FEmail;
   end

The same information can be stored in the fpmake.pp file.

All this info is supposed to be output in XML format from fpmake --manifest. fppkg picks it up and stores it in the repository.

If you want to extend it to include a category and keywords, be my guest.

Michael.