[Lazarus] Lazarus helpfiles

Martin lazarus at mfriebe.de
Tue Jul 10 16:42:08 CEST 2012


On 10/07/2012 15:14, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
> Well, I didn't dare to propose this for 3 reasons :
> - chm package is 16.3MB, adding to already heavy 78.8MB lazarus installer exe,
> not cool for some people who are bandwidth-challenged; If the plain-text html
> is the same content, that could be included by default, possibly.
>
> - documentation updates - may they happen in between releases ? if so, it is
> easier to download docs as separate exe and just launch (under windows) or
> run 'sudo apt-get upgrade' (under *buntu for example) which happens automatically
> if set up so (not everybody has a taste or time for RSS updates ...)
>
> - packaging / splitting requirements of different distros (you may heard of them)...
> requiring somebody to create a meta-package with correct dependencies (and maintaining it)
>
I don't know if it is possible. Some installers on windows do ask for 
options like this, and if selected download the required files.




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