integrating an online repository for lazarus components
lazarus / 6-IDE-CodeTools

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Gl3nn · 2009-01-07 10:20

Hi everyone

 - Happy new year!

Now I have used some time to migrate some of my projects from Delphi
to Lazarus, and I must say I'm very impressed of the work which has
been put into Lazarus and Free Pascal so far - keep on the good work

Anyhow, I have had an idea for improving Lazarus (especially the
component area) for a while now and I thought it was time to share it
with the rest of the community

//The idea:

I have thought about making a component manager which works in the
same way as a package manager in Linux. Instead of users publish
components or complete component packs around the net (and sometimes
we never discover these great components), then by giving the users
the possibility to publish their components on a common repository BUT
instead of downloading packages off a web page, compiling, installing
and restarting Lazarus then the users can install the components
directly from within the IDE.
IMO this has several benefits over the current method of installing
components. some of them are:

When an updated version of a components or a component pack is
updated, then the user can be notified about the update and giving the
option to install it.

If a component or component pack has dependencies of other projects
e.g. SDL units or LNet units and the user doesn't have the required
units installed or the required version doesn't match then the
component manager can install these too.

Easier location of components for specific tasks like audio
processing, special database connectivity or skinning of an
application just to name a few.


Would this idea be realistic or useful?
Please give me your opinion about the topic

best regards
./Funtex

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Paul Ishenin · 2009-01-09 18:23

Yes, it is useful idea. Will you implement it?

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Gl3nn · 2009-01-19 16:39

Hi Paul

Sure I will , even though i've never worked with network programming
in lager scale, i will try to do my best to implement this extension.

Do you have any good resources to start study regarding network
programming on Linux?

best regards

./Funtex