Hi I took the liberty to add a task for proper Lazarus installers into the new http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Season_of_Code page.
Installation is now much too difficult. This is a typical situation in an open source project. There are few core developers who already know how to install. The ones that suffer from the problem don't know how to fix it. There are many examples of programs that are easy to install. One of them is http://www.teamviewer.com (which I just learned to know). There is a big Start/Download button which can't be missed. It recognizes your OS and offers the right package, RPM or DEB for Linux, DMG for Mac, EXE for Windows (could be also MSI), app store link for iPhone. A Linux distro that has FPC and Lazarus available in its package server is now the best OS for installing Lazarus bacause the package manager takes care of FPC dependency for Lazarus. Click and OK, just like it should be. Other platforms have problems. For example Windows: I installed Lazarus for Windows for the first time. Then I had already installed SVN versions of both FPC and Lazarus on Linux, configured git-svn link to use the subversion server directly with git, and committed lots of code for the converter in Lazarus. So I was not a complete newbie any more. Still I had to ask instructions on chat for how to install on Windows, and without asking it would have gone wrong. Namely I would have chosen "fpc-2.4.0.source.zip" instead of "fpcbuild-2.4.0.zip" when I wanted FPC sources. The goal should be a one-click installer for anyone who wants to try Lazarus. Juha
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