[fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sat Nov 3 20:58:21 CET 2007


> Florian Klaempfl schrieb:
> >>> Ok, I'll ask next time this person to spent the weekend to fix windows
> >>> installer scripts and assign to it the still open web download page,
> >>> installer and install package bugs.
> >> I was never for the download system in the first place remember? In my
> >> opinion it can be a huge binary.
> > 
> > I meant only the current download pages.
> 
> Add: Each additional downloadble package increases deployment pain
> significantly. Just look at 9500, this problem exists for aeons, nobody
> cares.

Probably, but is that really the problem with packages? Packages are a part
of Delphi compat, and have been explicitely on the 2.x roadmap for years.
And now we cancel it because the linux install installs the demoes in the
wrong place, if not manually fixed?




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