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

[Sven Barth]

Am 17.10.2024 um 03:42 schrieb Ralf Quint via fpc-pascal:
> On 10/16/2024 2:49 PM, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
>>
>> >> 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.
>>
> Not sure what kind of help you are referring to, but Help seems to be 
> installed on my system I am currently working on, and all I ever 
> download when upgrading or installing a new version is the 64bit 
> version of Lazarus&compiler as well as the 32bit cross-compiler...
> And on Linux, I download and install in order 3 files, as clearly 
> indicated, which are fpc-laz (the compiler), fpc-src (source code) and 
> lazarus-project (IDE), with the later including the help files...
>
He's talking about the help for the textmode IDE. As he wrote Lazarus 
includes the help, but the FPC installer does not.

Regards,
Sven
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