[Lazarus] Zipped binary snapshot for Windows

Marcos Douglas md at delfire.net
Sun Jul 18 18:13:44 CEST 2010


On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi together!
>
> I have a question/suggestion:
>
> Would it be possible to create zipped versions of the binary Lazarus
> snapshots for Windows (equally to the installer versions, but without the
> installer).
>
> My reason is this: Sometimes I want to test a newer version of Lazarus maybe
> even with the different supported compilers. It bugs me a bit that I either
> need to "make" one myself (I don't have a real problem with building from
> source, but it takes time...) or I screw the "uninstaller registration" of
> my stable version by running the snapshot's installer. Thus I'd prefer a
> "download, unzip, test, remove" approach which is only available with a
> primitive installation from a Zip file.
>
> If you know a method to uncompress the installer without executing it, I'd
> go that way to, if you don't want to provide zipped snapshots.

I use SVN and, some times, I copy the SVN sources to put in others
machines without problems.
If you uses the SVN, you can update many versions different of FPC or Lazarus.


MD




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