On 10/16/2024 2:49 PM, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> 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.
Not sure what kind of help you are referring to, but Help seems to be
installed on my system I am currently working on, and all I ever
download when upgrading or installing a new version is the 64bit version
of Lazarus&compiler as well as the 32bit cross-compiler...
And on Linux, I download and install in order 3 files, as clearly
indicated, which are fpc-laz (the compiler), fpc-src (source code) and
lazarus-project (IDE), with the later including the help files...
Ralf
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