[Lazarus] Installing lazarus on Windows, horror story goes on

[Juha Manninen]

2010/7/29 Andrew Brunner <andrew.t.brunner at gmail.com>

> 2010/7/29 Juha Manninen <juha.manninen62 at gmail.com>:
>
> I'm going to go out on a limb here and say what I think is the
> obvious.  If installing software on a computer is hard - writing
> software for said computer is going to be even harder.
>

You understood the situation little wrong. He is not planning to write SW,
he only wants to build and run the program I made, on his platform (OSX)
which is different from mine (Linux).
Remember the ad: Write once, compile everywhere.


Perhaps the person you are working with could pay you money to develop
> the application instead of dragging this ON and ON.  If getting the
> Lazarus packaged version installed is this challenging perhaps
> expecting said user to write software with Lazarus is going to be -
> impossible?
>

Actually it is me pushing this Lazarus thing for him. He asked me earlier if
a computer program could solve his problem. I became interested and promised
to write a small prog. I really thought Lazarus was a good idea because he
could build a Mac version with it. Later the Windows laptop was just a
rescue plan when everything failed.
I am not going to ask money from him, this is more a question of pride now.
I don't want to push crap to anyone.


Software development requires a basic understanding of how computers work...
>

I understand that. Still, Lazarus should be easy to install also for people
who don't program themselves!
In a sense it is comparable to Java if the purpose really is to compile
existing code for other platforms.



> I've had my problems with particular issues but the write once compile
> everywhere works on Linux, Mac, and Windows.  What more can someone
> ask for w/o using interpreted stuff?  You can't expect Lazarus to
> write the software too once you get it installed. ;-)
>

> That being said - perhaps you downloaded a specific version w/o the
> FPC binaries.
>

 I really don't know what went wrong. The fact is however that something
went wrong for a person who can install most other SW. It means the
installation is not as easy as it should be.

BTW, do you think my idea of compiling a program using Lazarus by a
non-programmer is a stupid idea? I honestly thought it was a cool idea.
But, maybe Lazarus should be touched only by programmers and it kind of
justifies the difficult installation. It works as an intelligence test. If
you can't install it, you are too stupid to program.


Juha
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