On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Sebastian Günther wrote:

> Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> > On 20/08/07, David Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Do people think we should try to package LazReport into Lazarus at some
> > > future point?
> > 
> > Someone else also mentioned that idea a while back. I think that would
> > be a good idea and a step forward in the right direction.  Unless
> > other reporting tools are available and deem it unfair. (Oh such
> > business thinking!) :-)
> 
> My 2ct:
> I think it's quite important for Lazarus in the long term to have important
> basic functionality built-it automatically, or else the situation will get as
> worse at it is the case with Delphi. (Each time I have to reinstall Delphi it
> takes 2 hours until all components are installed again. BTW, having some kind
> of package manager similar to the Linux ones would be _extremely_ cool and
> handy.)

This will be fppkg. Feel free to help out :-)

> 
> On Lazarus actually I have to install Lazarus itself, then lclextensions,
> multilog, virtualtreeview, lNet, PowerPDF, and to enable the Firebird
> support... This is not a very convenient solution.

You can do all this in 1 recompile ?
(provided you have all sources)

> 
> At some time in the future, a discussion about which components to include by
> default will be necessary. It should be possible to create powerful
> applications by just installing Lazarus itself.

Only packages that do not require third-party libs are eligible...
(or that load them dynamically, on-demand, such as sqldb connections) 

> 
> 
> Regards,
> Sebastian
> 
> (btw, something totally different: I noticed that the FCL source files are
> missing in recent Lazarus Win32 installers. Is this a known issue somebody
> cares about already?)

Are you looking in the right place ? They are under packages/fcl-*

Michael.

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