On Tue, 14 Apr 2020, Balázs Székely via lazarus wrote:
@Michael I have not used the OPM extensively, but I think that once a package has been registered/accepted, I think the original author must be able to upload his own changes. @silvioprog Me too. Many other PMs allows the component/library authors to upgrade their packages. I personally would like to use any procedure instead of sending e-mail. Creating such an infrastructure would require a lot of work and time. First you need a registration/login system for the package developers, a database to store information about the packages, a mechanism to find dependencies(currently is done by parsing a json), quotas for users, etc. More over OPM shouldn't connect directly to the database, you need a third application running on server side via cgi, also you need some kind of traffic encryption. Definitely not a one man job.
You are aware that Joost has already a completely function system for this ? We're going to roll it out for FPC after 3.2, and I suppose you could piggy-back on it for the OPM. As far as I know joost has been working actively on bridgingthe lazarus package system with the fppkg system in lazarus, so I imagine it should not be too much work for you.
I still need to rewrite the web-front end in pas2js, but from what I've seen that should also not be too much work. It's in my top-3 TODO when the texts for the Lazarus book are done. Michael.
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