On Thursday, March 31, 2011 12:22 Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > Right, but this is only a workaround, that requires much care in making > it work. Did you ever notice the many error messages and warnings, at > the first start of a another Lazarus installation, when it tries to > initialize itself from an inapplicable default configuration?
> Just the newbie, and even the average user, should not be burdened with > remembering the location of the configuration, that applies to every > single Lazarus installation. No wonder why many peoply consider Lazarus > still unusable, when another try to install and use the current Lazarus > version fails miserably, because it uses the configuration left over > from a previous try :-( Sorry, but a newbie shouldn't juggle with a bunch of lazarus installations of different versions in the first place. Either you know what you are doing, or you don't. In the latter case: stay away from it until you do :D I don't say it would be nice to have a friendlier solution, but it's definitely not that important - there are more important things than supporting multiple concurrent installations out-of-the-box (in a newbie-friendly way). However, it is indeed very important to verify the validity of the configs, since the case you mentioned (upgrading lazarus and then having the wrong compiler paths etc.) is not that uncommon and indeed can hit newbies pretty hard. -- Best Regards, Andreas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
