[fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

[James Richters]

>> By and large, FPC (and Lazarus) is installed rather quickly.
 
The only thing I wish for the installation of FPC is that all the help files were included and installed by default.   I am always annoyed by being required to go get the help files and add them in myself when I install FPC.   I think many years ago making them separate files that could be downloaded if needed made sense, but those days are long gone and manually downloading and installing the help files is just not necessary anymore.   I know you don’t need the help files if you have Lazarus, and I’m in the minority, but I like the text IDE and use it exclusively.    
 
I think anyone coming across the IDE and not realizing the help needs to be downloaded and installed separately would just assume there is no help.   I know it states it quite clearly on the download page, but when downloading it you are just tying to get it working it’s not until you want to really do something and try to use the help that you realize there is none, and by then you forgot what was on the download page.
 
James
 
 
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