[fpc-devel] fppkg question

[dhkblaszyk at zeelandnet.nl]

 On Tue, 10 May 2011 08:30:28 +0200 (CEST), Michael Van Canneyt 
 <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> 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.

 Thanks, that was the class indeed I was looking for to extend.

 Darius