On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Juha Manninen wrote:
Ok,
we had a Skype phone+chat session with my friend again trying to install
Lazarus, this time on a Windows XP laptop. I thought it must be an easy task
and we are done quickly. I was wrong again!
He managed to install Lazarus by himself. So yes, it is easy to install but
read on... First he made a directory for my program under C:\. Then he
opened the project with Lazarus. Everything looked good. Then he clicked
"Run" button --> "cannot write to directory lib" ... or something.
Apparently he did't have enough rights for the folder. But now, why was he
able to create the folder through "My Computer" if he has no rights for it?
I just don't know Windows enough to understand it.
If you really think it is a permission problem, why do you blame this on
Lazarus,
when you should be complaining to Microsoft ?
And if peazip has a weird interface, again: why blame this on Lazarus ?
You should contact the peazip maintainer and complain to him;
Lazarus does not enforce a particular interface.
I've installed Lazarus on many windows PC's, including Vista (with all it's
strange security settings) and I never had any problems. And this was with the
vanilla installer, no special tricks.
I fully understand that such things are frustrating, but I hardly think it is
fair
to blame these experiences on Lazarus.
If you want, I can show you similar problems as you experience with just about any
program on windows. They are not hard to reproduce.
Michael.
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