[Lazarus] Lazarus config woes

Martin lazarus at mfriebe.de
Wed Mar 30 15:44:00 CEST 2011


On 30/03/2011 14:23, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>
>
> Zaher Dirkey <parmaja at gmail.com> hat am 30. März 2011 um 14:26 
> geschrieben:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich 
>> <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com <mailto:DrDiettrich1 at aol.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I just encountered a nasty problem:
>>
>>     When I have multiple Lazarus installations (trunk, branches,
>>     snapshot...), the common Lazarus configuration is used by default
>>     (when no --pcp is specified). Actually I wondered about many
>>     error messages on an IDE rebuild, until I noticed that the
>>     (default) configuration referred to a different Lazarus directory
>>     :-( 
>>
> Related:
>
> Last week I add a check to test if the given Lazarus directory has the 
> same main version as the IDE. It checks 0.9.31. It does not check the 
> svn revision. If the version does not fit it shows a setup dialog. 
> This should help to spot some of such errors.
>
>

Why only chec the version?

why not check, if the lazarus.exe is in the same folder, as it was the 
on the previous run?

an lazarus.exe in a new/different folder is very likely in need of it's 
own config.

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btw, I just saw that conf dialog: very cool

Martin
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