On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Sebastian Günther wrote:
> Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > > On 20/08/07, David Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do people think we should try to package LazReport into Lazarus at some > > > future point? > > > > Someone else also mentioned that idea a while back. I think that would > > be a good idea and a step forward in the right direction. Unless > > other reporting tools are available and deem it unfair. (Oh such > > business thinking!) :-) > > My 2ct: > I think it's quite important for Lazarus in the long term to have important > basic functionality built-it automatically, or else the situation will get as > worse at it is the case with Delphi. (Each time I have to reinstall Delphi it > takes 2 hours until all components are installed again. BTW, having some kind > of package manager similar to the Linux ones would be _extremely_ cool and > handy.) This will be fppkg. Feel free to help out :-) > > On Lazarus actually I have to install Lazarus itself, then lclextensions, > multilog, virtualtreeview, lNet, PowerPDF, and to enable the Firebird > support... This is not a very convenient solution. You can do all this in 1 recompile ? (provided you have all sources) > > At some time in the future, a discussion about which components to include by > default will be necessary. It should be possible to create powerful > applications by just installing Lazarus itself. Only packages that do not require third-party libs are eligible... (or that load them dynamically, on-demand, such as sqldb connections) > > > Regards, > Sebastian > > (btw, something totally different: I noticed that the FCL source files are > missing in recent Lazarus Win32 installers. Is this a known issue somebody > cares about already?) Are you looking in the right place ? They are under packages/fcl-* Michael.
