On 6/4/2010 06:18, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 4 June 2010 06:32, waldo kitty wrote:
what would it take for the various *nix flavor maintainers to fix their
install scripts so that FPC and/or Lazarus were installed in this manner? it
would definitely fix a lot of headaches when it comes to installing the
prepared release packages...
I'm slowly but surely work on that. We (our company) have been working
on a cross-platform (and distro independent) installer system. It
allows system wide or user specific installs. FPC (and maybe even
Lazarus) was going to be our public demo of our installer in action.
ooohhhh! that'd be quite kool! don't stop working on it ;)
As a side note:
On my own *nix systems I always create a 'developer' user group and
then give that group read/write access to /opt. So in a way it's
similar to installing to $HOME. I hardly ever install custom software
to /usr/ or /usr/local/. /home and /opt are also in separate
partitions so after re-installing (I hate OS upgrades) a new version
of the OS, all my programs and files are still available (and
untouched).
yeah, too bad mickey mou^H^H^H^H^H^Hrosoft hasn't yet learned that trick... if
they had, there'd be C: for the OS and everything else would reside on D: at
least ;)
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