[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

[Sven Barth]

Am 26.09.2012 17:56, schrieb Cephas Atheos:
> On 27/09/12 1:11 AM, "Sven Barth" <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> This (although I'm mostly using URL completion for it...) and the
>> following:
>> * http://wiki.freepascal.org/
>> * http://www.freepascal.org/docs.var
>> * ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/trunk/
>> * http://bugs.freepascal.org
>
> Oh, Sven, Sven, SvenŠ I absolutely agree that those are really useful
> pages. But not one of them says "Download Here" (flashing the "Here", of
> course! :))

Well... you asked what _we_ would want to see. Most of the people here 
are developers, some of them even core developers, so such answers were 
expectable. And I was fully aware that this wasn't the answer you hoped 
for ;)

Btw: Do you know where this "S" with accent comes from? I have noticed 
this in nearly every mail of you already.

> Again, think new, novice user. They're probably smart enough to know how
> to configure their browser to download to a known location on their system
> (that goes without saying for linux users, but not necessarily windows or
> Mac users), and they should know the difference between a compiler and an
> ide. But not everyone is going to know or care about daily builds,
> patches, trunks, and fixes. They're going to say "Hey, you promised me a
> programming language. What's FTP got to do with it?"

Regarding the difference between compiler and IDE I can tell you that 
there are many people (even Delphi developers or rather especially 
those) that don't know the difference between the two or more concrete 
the difference between Lazarus and FPC.

Regards,
Sven