[Lazarus] Tutorial Compiling/installing FPC and Lazarus from Sources of SVN

[Henry Vermaak]

On 23/07/10 13:01, Reimar Grabowski wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:05:51 -0400
> waldo kitty<wkitty42 at windstream.net>  wrote:
>
>> yes, i understand what you are saying however, remember that the point i'm
>> coming from is from that of the "average joe coder" who has no need of
>> understanding all the deep intricacies of everything...
>
> Now seriously.
> There are many much smarter people on this list than me. I am doing pascal coding only as a hobby. I don't have any programming/computer related degree. I don't understand all and everything of building a cross-compiler, but it only took me about 2 hours from not knowing where to start to a working cross-compiler.
> If that is to much for "average joe coder" then perhaps "average joe coder" should really switch to something like Java.
> Building a cross-compiler is not that hard. It takes some dedication and time. But it looks likes people are just lazy. Don't want to know, don't want to learn, always crying: "Give me the ready made stuff!"
> To me this sounds like the attitude of an end user and not that of a coder.
> No offence ment, but I really don't get it. We are coders after all. Learning and understanding makes a great part of this. Even learning stuff that you maybe don't need that often or ever again.
> Anyone interested in my CP/M knowledge? No? Thought so.
> Again, I don't believe that I am much smarter than "joe". So if I can do it, he can do it, too.
> I really don't want to offend anyone, I just don't understand this attitude. If you call yourself a coder, regardless of skill, setting up your environment is your task. And you have documentation and a great community that helps. What do you need more?
> Yes, sometimes it sucks, that things are a little complicated but such is life.

I really agree with this.  Programmers should be able to feed 
themselves, not relying on others to spoon-feed them.  If people don't 
want to learn, perhaps they shouldn't be programmers in the first place.

Henry