[fpc-pascal] Ubuntu PPA for fpc 2.4rc1?

[Matthias Klumpp]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:52:59 -0300, Flávio Etrusco
<flavio.etrusco at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> will somebody please create an Ubuntu PPA for newer releases of fpc? ;-)
> I guess this would be trivial to the maintainer of fpc packages in
> Ubuntu, but if it's not the case/they don't want to, is it ok if do
> (try)?
I packaged a new snapshot of the FPC 2.4.0 sources for my projects,
especially the Listaller project (an application installer for Linux).
Because the Listaller projects needs newer software versions than available
on Ubuntu, my PPA contains a lot of experimental software. If you want to
try the packages, I suggest downloading them manually or add the PPA,
update FPC and then remove it.
The PPA could break your PackageKit if you use Kubuntu. If you don't have
those components installed, it is harmless.
You can view the PPA information page here:
http://launchpad.net/~ximion/+archive/ppa
Note: Your Lazarus-Version will be updated too, if it is installed.
I could create a PPA for Lazarus/FPC development snapshots, but at time it
is a lot of effort. Is another package maintainer here who could assist in
building FPC packages? (It is not difficult, but ever package has to be
tested carefully, this needs a lot of time)
Regards
  Matthias Klumpp