Giuliano Colla schrieb:
The first problem is the rpm format: rpm's are generated with a recent
version, which provides a higher compression level (lzma), but which
isn't supported by the previous rpm versions. Using a graphic interface
installer will not give any clue, just signaling an "unknown error".
Anybody not stubborn enough will believe that the files are corrupted,
and will give up, thinking that Lazarus and fpc are shit.
+1
RPMs and DEBs typically are managed and distributed by the OS provider,
so that Lazarus should provide the appropriate files for *every* major
distro. Incompatible file versions will not find their way into the
official distros. We should try to provide more current Lazarus versions
for every long-term platform, to prevent users from getting the old
official versions, e.g. something like 0.9.26 for SuSE 10.
WRT SuSE I found the original versions much more usable than the public
OpenSuse versions. I tried OpenSuse 11/12, and dropped them both after
problems with the installer, drivers, GUI and more.
DoDi
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