Re: What to do to get new users

On 10/16/2024 2:49 PM, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
>
> >> By and large, FPC (and Lazarus) is installed rather quickly.
>
> The only thing I wish for the installation of FPC is that all the help 
> files were included and installed by default. I am always annoyed by 
> being required to go get the help files and add them in myself when I 
> install FPC.I think many years ago making them separate files that 
> could be downloaded if needed made sense, but those days are long gone 
> and manually downloading and installing the help files is just not 
> necessary anymore. I know you don’t need the help files if you have 
> Lazarus, and I’m in the minority, but I like the text IDE and use it 
> exclusively.
>
> I think anyone coming across the IDE and not realizing the help needs 
> to be downloaded and installed separately would just assume there is 
> no help.I know it states it quite clearly on the download page, but 
> when downloading it you are just tying to get it working it’s not 
> until you want to really do something and try to use the help that you 
> realize there is none, and by then you forgot what was on the download 
> page.
>
Not sure what kind of help you are referring to, but Help seems to be 
installed on my system I am currently working on, and all I ever 
download when upgrading or installing a new version is the 64bit version 
of Lazarus&compiler as well as the 32bit cross-compiler...
And on Linux, I download and install in order 3 files, as clearly 
indicated, which are fpc-laz (the compiler), fpc-src (source code) and 
lazarus-project (IDE), with the later including the help files...


Ralf

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