Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

You raise some valid points, which might still be a concern today. I
still get annoyed when I need to setup a Windows development machine.
I would like a Lazarus binary release, but without FPC, because I
prefer to keep my FPC source on par with the FPC Fixes branch. So I
don't need the outdated FPC that is included with the Lazarus
installer.

+1 (as they say), but in my case because I regularly find myself having to update e.g. the compiler on a SPARC system because of a CG change and then find that only a limited range of Lazarus builds are compatible.

/However/, I think a fair question at this point is whether an svn update has a higher or lower bandwidth and per-Mb cost than downloading a binary snapshot, and whether this changes as the number of development systems increase (specifically, because the same binary can be used for all machines with the same architecture but a directory under svn control has limited tolerance of being moved between systems).

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

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