George Birbilis schreef:
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).
Maybe, maybe not.
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
Yes, please implement this. I cannot wait for your patches, because I have been
dreaming for something like this for two years now and I never seem to come to it,
there always thinks I like to do more or find to be more missing in Lazarus.
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)
It is standardized for all platforms, but not for all versions. For example, if I
created the sub directory with svn 1.4, you cannot read it with svn 1.3.
Vincent
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