[Lazarus] Lazarus config woes

[Lukasz Sokol]

On 01/04/2011 10:27, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Marco van de Voort schrieb:
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:50:05PM +0200, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>>>> problem to share him config espicialy for IDE.
>>> IMO the current config is not shareable, due to the many absolute pathes in it.
>>
>> Interesting. How did you test this?

> 
>>> Currently I have to locate the default configuration directory, what's not so easy on Windows, and move or rename it, before I can e.g. install another snapshot or branch.
>>
>> I never use the global dir. I simply use a batchfile to start lazarus that
>> sets --lazarus-dir and pcp.
> 
> That's amusing ;-)
> 
> First everybody claims that a common config in the default place is a must, then you say that you don't use that config. So it's not only me who wants simplified procedures for using multiple Lazarus versions in parallel?
> 
+1

> 
>> I think that if you want to fix issues like this, the installer is the place
>> to work. It should allow "advanced" or movable installs.
> 
> Which installer do you mean, for SVN checkouts???
> 
> It would help a lot, when a SVN checkout would start out-of-the-box, after Make, without any special configuring. As already mentioned, eventual non-standard behaviour could be made specific to non-release builds.
> 
+1

> DoDi
> 

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