[fpc-pascal] Re: FPCUp FPC/Lazarus installer/updater: first Linux/Windows version released

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 11-2-2012 22:05, Rainer Stratmann wrote:
> Sorry for not reading the whole thread.
> But is it then also possible to povide a binary version of each (Linux) distro 
> for easiest installing (just unzip the archive)? FPC and Lazarus in one sub 
> directory?

fpcup downloads (or updates) and installs fpc+lazarus and compiles
them+adds some shortcuts/shell scripts that start up the new Lazarus.
Both the newly installed FPC and Lazarus could reside in the same
directory or at least subdirectories eg:
~
 \
 trunk
 |
 +-Lazarus
 +-fpc
You'd need to provide the suitable directories to fpcup in the command
line (see fpcup --help). A GUI for all of this is in development.

While the point of the program is to provide developers with an up to
date version of SVN trunk (or whichever SVN branch/tag you want to
track), it does not install documentation etc at the moment, or provide
for a binary install (without downloading sources from SVN), and I think
the .deb and .rpm packages are more suitable for that.

However, the desired goal of the program is that you run it and just get
a working SVN version of Lazarus and FPC.

I suggest you try it on your Linux distro and see what happens. It is
designed to leave any existing Lazarus and FPC installs alone (unless,
of course, the installation directories overlap; see fpcup --help for
options)

If you encounter any bugs, I'd be happy to try and fix them.

Regards,
Reinier