>> By and large, FPC (and Lazarus) is installed rather quickly.
 
The only thing I wish for the installation of FPC is that all the help files 
were included and installed by default.   I am always annoyed by being required 
to go get the help files and add them in myself when I install FPC.   I think 
many years ago making them separate files that could be downloaded if needed 
made sense, but those days are long gone and manually downloading and 
installing the help files is just not necessary anymore.   I know you don’t 
need the help files if you have Lazarus, and I’m in the minority, but I like 
the text IDE and use it exclusively.    
 
I think anyone coming across the IDE and not realizing the help needs to be 
downloaded and installed separately would just assume there is no help.   I 
know it states it quite clearly on the download page, but when downloading it 
you are just tying to get it working it’s not until you want to really do 
something and try to use the help that you realize there is none, and by then 
you forgot what was on the download page.
 
James
 
 
_______________________________________________
fpc-pascal maillist  -  fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org
https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Reply via email to