On 7 June 2010 14:45, Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/06/2010, Henry Vermaak wrote: >> >> Shouldn't the examples (or indeed all of the source) be installed in >> /usr/local/src? > > That will not make any difference. A standard user still doesn't have > write access to that location.
Yes, I know that, that's not what I suggested it for. It's just the traditional place to put source, where people would go and look first. Putting examples in a directory writeable by everyone doesn't make any sense. > As far as I know, even with other products like Qt, GTK, Delphi which > includes demos and the system is installed in a multi-user > environment. Then if you want to compile and run a demo, you first > have to copy the demo source directory to a location you have > read/write access, then compile and run it from that new location. Windows have the shared documents directory, which I believe is the correct place to put examples. Henry -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
