[Pkg-pascal-devel] fpc libtar unit to fp-units-base

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Abou,

On 02-02-16 12:18, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
>> With fpc 3.0.0 fpmkunit now depends on libtar. However, we ship the
>> libtar unit in fp-unit-misc, while fpmkunit is in fp-unit-base. Do you
>> agree that we move it to fp-unit-base?
>>
>> castle-game-engine now FTBFS due to the dependencies not being resolved
>> due to this issue. It can be fixed in cge, but I think we should fix it
>> in fpc.
> IT is either we move libtar to fp-units-base, which is probably
> questionable as this is not supposed to be part of base RTL
> or we move fpmkunit to fp-unit-misc or even a dedicated package and then
> we need to change some packages.
> 
> My personal preference is that we have fpmkunit in a separate package
> that deals about compiling/packaging pascal code. I think this is cleaner.

If there is enough that goes into the package, fine. We already have
quite some packages in fpc/lazarus, so let's not introduce packages too
lightly.

Could make a proposal?

Paul

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