George Birbilis schrieb:
>> 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.
Somebody not patient enough to walk through the setup won't fix anything
anyways.
>
> 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)
Nonsense. The .svn folders contain a whole copy of the files.
> so that one can go on and use
> the SVN after they initially get a snapshot (for quickstarting)
>
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