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Title: CB 17.12 - Problems to get an update list of mirrors in DevPak plugin !
Post by: CBuser5962 on July 17, 2019, 09:45:11 pm

Hi,

I've just installed the last (stable) version of CB 17.12 for Windows (W10 64-bits 1903) with MingW. I tried to install the libraries that I need via DevPak update/installer plugin but I get always the same error after configuring the plugin : "Error downloading list of mirrors". See the following screenshot…

How could I fix the probleme to have access to the list of updated libraries please ?

Regards,

Christophe.

Title: Re: CB 17.12 - Problems to get an update list of mirrors in DevPak plugin !
Post by: oBFusCATed on July 17, 2019, 10:36:46 pm

I'm not sure this dev-pak thing is still actively maintained... At least from the list of files I couldn't see anything updated in the last 10 years.

Title: Re: CB 17.12 - Problems to get an update list of mirrors in DevPak plugin !
Post by: stahta01 on July 17, 2019, 11:14:46 pm

Quote from: oBFusCATed on July 17, 2019, 10:36:46 pm

I'm not sure this dev-pak thing is still actively maintained... At least from the list of files I couldn't see anything updated in the last 10 years.

A long time ago; I posted what I did to try to make it work. But, the websites that support devpaks was dying out back then.

This link has 5 year old devpaks; so, it survived for a while.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/devpacks/files/ (https://sourceforge.net/projects/devpacks/files/)

Tim S.

Title: Re: CB 17.12 - Problems to get an update list of mirrors in DevPak plugin !
Post by: CBuser5962 on July 18, 2019, 08:05:42 am

Thank you Tim for your answer.

How to proceed to update the list of mirrors for the DevPak plugin installed with CB 17.12 please ? I think some configuration have to been modified, but what files in what directories please ?

Christophe.

Title: Re: CB 17.12 - Problems to get an update list of mirrors in DevPak plugin !
Post by: stahta01 on July 18, 2019, 08:17:25 am

http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,14434.msg97584.html#msg97584 (http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,14434.msg97584.html#msg97584)

Title: Re: CB 17.12 - Problems to get an update list of mirrors in DevPak plugin !
Post by: CBuser5962 on July 18, 2019, 08:41:54 am

Tim,

There was no devpak_mirrors.cfg in my "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\codeblocks" directory. Then, I created a text file named  "devpak_mirrors.cfg". I modified the content with :

[WebUpdate mirrors]
Dev-C++ primary devpak server=http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dev-cpp/
devpaks.org Community Devpaks=http://devpaks.sourceforge.net/
Aved Devpaks Collecion =http://hivelocity.dl.sourceforge.net/project/devpacks/
wxDev-C++ DevPak server=http://wxdsgn.sourceforge.net/webupdate/
Sof.T's DevPak server=http://wxdevcpp-book.sourceforge.net/packages/

Only the last one seems to respond with a list of very limited libraries that I don't use. I mainly used CONIO2 Library…

Christophe.

Title: Re: CB 17.12 - Problems to get an update list of mirrors in DevPak plugin !
Post by: BlueHazzard on July 18, 2019, 09:22:04 am

For newer packet manager i would recommand mingw64 with pacman on windows. This thing is great...
If you want to distribute your applications it is a bit more work, but should also be manageable...

Title: Re: CB 17.12 - Problems to get an update list of mirrors in DevPak plugin !
Post by: stahta01 on July 18, 2019, 04:31:47 pm

To CB Devs:

I suggest not building Devpack by default in the CB Projects.
And, I suggest the next release not include the DevPack  plugin.

Tim S.

Title: Re: CB 17.12 - Problems to get an update list of mirrors in DevPak plugin !
Post by: oBFusCATed on July 18, 2019, 07:55:16 pm

If someone want to remove it, I'll review the patch. I have no time now to remove it myself.