[Lazarus] Serial communication??

[BosseB]

On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:31:46 -0400, waldo kitty
<wkitty42 at windstream.net> wrote:

>On 10/2/2010 12:51, Sven Barth wrote:
>> On 02.10.2010 18:21, waldo kitty wrote:
>>> agreed... except, how are multiple users to be able to use the component
>>> like those built into Laz? it appears to me that the instructions were
>>> thinking in this manner and so the component is added to those that come
>>> with Laz so that it is available to all users...
>>
>> In our company we have the 3rd party components (and our own ones) included in
>> the svn repo as well. And everyone installs them in the IDE when it's first
>> configured.
>>
>> I'm following this approach at home as well: I have three computers that I'm
>> using (one small Windows PC when traveling, one i386-linux laptop as main
>> computer and a x86_64-linux desktop as "server") and they are all getting the
>> custom Lazarus packages (e.g. lnet) from my Git repository.
>
>that's an interesting idea... however, we need to also look at the *nix skill 
>level of the OP...  we should also be considering that not everyone has the ways 
>and means to do this... it is good to point it out, though! ;)

I'm back.... Was away over the week-end and did not have time to force
the directory into the wrong place. Lucky! :-)
I will put it in my own home dir then and not worry because I am for
sure  the ONLY user of this computer (it is a virtual machine on my
Windows box).

>i've never used a repository for any of my coding in the 30+ years that i've 
>been coding... i have been considering installing one and seeing how it goes... 
>one of my concerns is the space it consumes... whether that is database space or 
>drive space or both... speed and efficiency are also of concern... especially 
>considering the equipment i have at hand that might be pressed into this type of 
>service ;)

If by "using a repository" you mean "using a source versioning
system", then I strongly advice to set up a system so you can
safeguard your code into the future. I have used CVS for 10 years and
I am still today wondering how in the world we managed to get
structure into our work before I brought the CVS server into the
company. Simply a must have!
Of course these days it is not CVS one would install if starting
afresh, probably SVN or GIT, but no matter which system you choose
running with one is infinitely better than running without one.


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden