On Tue, 31 May 2011 21:34:23 +0200 Roberto Padovani <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear List, > > I know it's me, and I beg your pardon for this, but every time I try > to upgrade from a lazarus version to another...it's a mess. > It happened before, but today I tried to upgrade from 0.9.28.3 to > 0.9.30 stable releases > Uninstalling old versions, always leaves something behind. For example > I had some packages of mine installed in the old one, and the new one > complained it couldn't find the package file (so it created a dummy > one). Why and how did the new one searched for them? > It seems to me that I cannot uninstall completely. The current config directory is shown in View / IDE Internals / About IDE >[...] > Generally speaking, why do I have to _install_ (in the win32 sense) > lazarus? It registers file types, creates desktop shortcuts and sets the path to FPC and FPC sources. > Isn't it possible to have a portable installation? It is possible. You need 0.9.31 and a start script. The script depends on your needs. > If I compile it from scratch, set a few environment options and > register some extension, should it work? Yes > The same is true for FPC, can it be portable? Yes. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
