> All this is possible, but IMHO it is nonsense to put effort > into creating such a snapshot. > > I think there is some intelligence test, test if people > persevere enough. If a person cannot find the link to getting > the sources from the home page and follow those instructions > to get a svn checkout, it is unreasonable to expect such a > person to provide sensible patches.
I can't say I agree, people with experience and skills don't have the time to spend reading all those instructions etc. So they must be very determined to fix or enhance something that bugs them in Lazarus or if they like very much to contribute something back to Lazarus. In both cases the time they lose in setting this up (if they don't get discouraged and give up in the first place) is lost from time they'd give in reading the sourcecode and possible fixes/enhanchements they'd do (and contribute). Regarding size, we could have a clever autodownloader/installer that reads a config/instructions file online from Laz site and grabs the correct FPC archive from FPC site, unpacks it etc., same with Laz files and places them were needed Regarding the .svn folder I believe if it's standard it should be in the snapshot (it doesn't take much size after all) so that one can go on and use the SVN after they initially get a snapshot (for quickstarting) _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0653-5, 05/12/2006 Tested on: 11/12/2006 10:13:23 p? avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
