2015-04-13 16:28 GMT+02:00 Martin Frb <[email protected]>: > On 13/04/2015 14:58, Lukasz Sokol wrote: > >> On 13/04/15 14:28, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> >>> Do you need additional features: a diff kind of update, >>> >> My bet's primarily on this one. >> >> > Well then the question is, is the request for > - an AUTO update (same download, just the IDE checks for it) > - an UPDATE installer, that reduces the download size. > > Of course ideally both. > > IMHO the rebuild with your packages should not be part of the installer, > but be done when you run the IDE. Same as we have the setup screen,the IDE > could probably detect that the configured packages are no longer installed, > and ask. > > As for the installer size, their are many options. The problem is > manpower. Such installers have to be build in order to be provided, and > someone has to do this on every release. > > Speaking of the windows installer (I do not know the others) > It be possible to build an Lazarus only, no fpc, if you already have fpc > in the correct version from the last install. But it needs to be build each > time. And it will add work on support, if people try to use it with an > older fpc, > It would also be possible to just install tho Lazarus sources, no ppu > included, and then build them locally (more time to install, less download). > > IMHO this features are only a needless complexity. Both for Lazarus and FPC, SVN or Git do the work in a excellent way for a good programmer (i suppose Lazarus and FPC users are programmers). I'm an hobbist programmer (very poor for the truth) but I've no problems to update via SVN
> There are many possible variations. But they all will take time for > building and testing on every release. > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus >
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