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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Juha Manninen wrote:

> 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.

... By programmers, of course.

The intended audience for Lazarus is strictly programmers.

I doubt I could explain how to install (let alone use) Delphi, VB , Access or whatever 
to my wife or child, even though they use a computer daily :-)

Michael.