[Lazarus] Lazarus Second Release Candidate, 1.2RC2

[William Oliveira Ferreira]

I think is much better change the default behavior to generate a external
debug file but i don't know if it has any consequence...


2014/1/15 Martin <lazarus at mfriebe.de>

> On 15/01/2014 10:43, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote:
>
>> Is it really necessary to mention exe size in the Windows installer?
>> It looks very weird that from everything about Lazarus this has to be
>> mentioned in the installer.
>>
>> Maybe a "tips" or "faq" or something in a "welcome" screen that
>> answers this and other "first" questions ("how do i enabled opengl?",
>> "how do i use a single window?", etc) should be better? (of course
>> such a welcome screen needs to be coded first :-P
>>
>>
>
> A "tip of the day" or even "tip" depending on action, that shows useful
> info within the IDE itself would be great. If someone would write the
> code... Right now, we do not have this code, and we do not have anybody who
> writes it.
>
> So displaying something in the installer was the easiest option. "Exe size
> on windows" is (for win users) the single most often asked question. And
> for some reason a lot of people do not read the FAQ. So this seemed the
> best solution.
>
> It was already put in 2nd place, to avoid starting with a "problem". First
> is the "what is Lazarus" (not very useful, in the installer, since a person
> running the installer will already have an idea).
>
>
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