On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:14:09 +0100 Lukasz Sokol <[email protected]> wrote:
>[...] > Well, I didn't dare to propose this for 3 reasons : > - chm package is 16.3MB, adding to already heavy 78.8MB lazarus installer exe, > not cool for some people who are bandwidth-challenged; If the plain-text html > is the same content, that could be included by default, possibly. The chms are basically the compressed html files. The offline help was requested for users with limited bandwidth. > - documentation updates - may they happen in between releases ? if so, it is > easier to download docs as separate exe and just launch (under windows) or > run 'sudo apt-get upgrade' (under *buntu for example) which happens > automatically > if set up so (not everybody has a taste or time for RSS updates ...) There are no plans for documentation upgrades for releases. > - packaging / splitting requirements of different distros (you may heard of > them)... > requiring somebody to create a meta-package with correct dependencies (and > maintaining it) AFAIK debian does that. But the packages on the official download site (sourceforge) should be only a few files to download. Ideally: only one per platform. > Oh and one more p from me : > ++ default windows (xp) system installation does not include a program that > can open > .tar.bz2, please consider adding other options...? Yes, that should be zip. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
