[fpc-devel] Lazarus 1.0 and fpc 2.6 do not install on popular distributions

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Giuliano Colla schrieb:

> The first problem is the rpm format: rpm's are generated with a recent 
> version, which provides a higher compression level (lzma), but which 
> isn't supported by the previous rpm versions. Using a graphic interface 
> installer will not give any clue, just signaling an "unknown error".
> Anybody not stubborn enough will believe that the files are corrupted, 
> and will give up, thinking that Lazarus and fpc are shit.

+1

RPMs and DEBs typically are managed and distributed by the OS provider, 
so that Lazarus should provide the appropriate files for *every* major 
distro. Incompatible file versions will not find their way into the 
official distros. We should try to provide more current Lazarus versions 
for every long-term platform, to prevent users from getting the old 
official versions, e.g. something like 0.9.26 for SuSE 10.

WRT SuSE I found the original versions much more usable than the public 
OpenSuse versions. I tried OpenSuse 11/12, and dropped them both after 
problems with the installer, drivers, GUI and more.

DoDi