Re: What to do to get new users
Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
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Am 17.10.2024 um 03:42 schrieb Ralf Quint via fpc-pascal: > 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... > He's talking about the help for the textmode IDE. As he wrote Lazarus includes the help, but the FPC installer does not. Regards, Sven _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [email protected] https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal