Am 17.10.2024 um 03:42 schrieb Ralf Quint via fpc-pascal:
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...
He's talking about the help for the textmode IDE. As he wrote Lazarus
includes the help, but the FPC installer does not.
Regards,
Sven
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