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June 4, 2015

More Information on GetIt Package Manager in XE8

GetIt is the new XE8 package manager for RAD Studio. Information about how to submit your libraries to GetIt has just been made available by Embarcadero.

GetIt is the new XE8 package manager for RAD Studio. Information about how to submit your libraries to GetIt has just been made available by Embarcadero.

The idea behind GetIt is really to make is easier and faster to discover, install, and keep updated some of the best open source libraries for Delphi and C++Builder. The main form of GetIt lets you browse or search for a library, and with one click (plus a second to accept the license) you can get the component installed and ready to use.

You can find more information at www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/tools-and-components, while some technical information is in the help at docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE8/en/GetIt_Main_Window.

What's new is the set of "acceptance guidelines" for submitting libraries to GetIt, something Embarcadero is encouraging. While the process is still manual (and it will get automated) you can read the article to see if your library is within the requirements, which if it is an actively maintained library adding value to the product is likely the case. In the article you can also find the download with the information needed for an actual submission. The link is:

community.embarcadero.com/index.php/article/news/16027-submitting-libraries-to-getit

Beside the initial "TurboPack" group of libraries and a couple of internal add-ons, we already got a couple of submissions, including ICS and OmniThread. A couple of others are being added right now. Let's add many more...

posted by marcocantu @ 11:06AM | 6 Comments [0 Pending]

6 Comments

More Information on GetIt Package Manager in XE8

I haven't looked at it since the release, but 
currently it lists most everything twice on my 
machine.

Anyone else seeing that?

Comment by C Johnson on June 4, 22:08

More Information on GetIt Package Manager in XE8

On GetIt most components are listed both for C++ and Delphi, as 
they have slight differences in the packages installation. In the 
future, we are going to add a language filter to make it easier.

Comment by Marco Cantu [http://www.marcocantu.com] on June 5, 06:54

More Information on GetIt Package Manager in XE8

Maybe the interface could also provide than a single 
tweet's worth of information for the components?

Comment by C Johnson on June 5, 14:33

More Information on GetIt Package Manager in XE8

Sorry for the broken links in the community article. While they get 
fixed, you can use the following:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/133855/GetIt%20Submission
%20Information.rtf

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/133855/GetIt%20Submission
%20Information.pdf

Comment by Marco Cantu [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/133855/GetIt%20Submission%20Information.pdf] on June 6, 16:31

More Information on GetIt Package Manager in XE8

I have a thought, that you should make Get It 
package manager have more role in delphi. Here is 
my idea: you make Get It to become the mandotary 
tool to install a component whether online or 
offline. This way, you can control the upgrade or 
recompiling of the component when you release new 
SERVICE PACK (Not New Delphi Version) for the same 
major version.

This will help user who has a lot of component 
installed so they can upgrade delphi much easier. 
This of course forced the component developer to 
follow some standard to make get it possible to 
recompile it for them.

The component still also available to be installed 
like current scheme but they will missed the auto 
upgrade option available on Get It Package Manager.

The goal of course is to make it easier for 
embarcadero to release service pack or update pack 
at much shorter time frame without getting 
complains from customer for having to install all 
of the component by them self for each update.

You can also make get it package manager available 
as personal cloud component so user can install all 
their component on cloud to new delphi major 
version if possible

By the way, i like the idea of having two version 
of upgrade, ie: General Available Update (Bug Fixed 
Only) and Update Subcription (Bug Fixed and New 
Features) where Update Subscription have more 
feature update than the General Available update. 
This of course will push non maintenance subcriber 
to buy the plan, and make the maintenace subcriber 
to feel having more advantage. You can also make 
Update Subcription to check the delphi version the 
user have online before installing it, hopefully 
this will greatly reduce piracy

Thanks for listening,

Iwan

Comment by iwan [http://iwan.wordpress.com] on June 21, 21:30

All links are dead

All of the links in this blog post are dead. 
Particularly the download links for the GetIt
submission process.  Even other links I have found
elsewhere are dead too, like this one:

https://community.embarcadero.com0/uploads/GetIt_Submission_Information.docx

Does this webform even still work?

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScd8j3NHgHne0wUzm3Q6fKdYf-XpPq4oH5TJ5ZebSC6iqZ0iw/viewform

Why hasn't GetIt submission details been posted on the
main Embarcadero site, or the DocWiki site, where it
belongs?  Why aren't the download links being
maintained properly?  How do you expect people to
submit new components to GetIt if they can't even find
the info they need?  This is rediculous.

Comment by Remy Lebeau [http://www.lebeausoftware.org] on June 22, 17:32

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