[Lazarus] Lazarus + FreeBSD

[waldo kitty]

On 6/4/2010 06:18, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 4 June 2010 06:32, waldo kitty wrote:
>>
>> what would it take for the various *nix flavor maintainers to fix their
>> install scripts so that FPC and/or Lazarus were installed in this manner? it
>> would definitely fix a lot of headaches when it comes to installing the
>> prepared release packages...
>
> I'm slowly but surely work on that. We (our company) have been working
> on a cross-platform (and distro independent) installer system. It
> allows system wide or user specific installs. FPC (and maybe even
> Lazarus) was going to be our public demo of our installer in action.

ooohhhh! that'd be quite kool! don't stop working on it ;)

> As a side note:
> On my own *nix systems I always create a 'developer' user group and
> then give that group read/write access to /opt. So in a way it's
> similar to installing to $HOME. I hardly ever install custom software
> to /usr/ or /usr/local/.  /home and /opt are also in separate
> partitions so after re-installing (I hate OS upgrades) a new version
> of the OS, all my programs and files are still available (and
> untouched).

yeah, too bad mickey mou^H^H^H^H^H^Hrosoft hasn't yet learned that trick... if 
they had, there'd be C: for the OS and everything else would reside on D: at 
least ;)