[Lazarus] Installer recommendations

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb:

> The thing that seems really painful to me is that a program which (say) 
> uses database facilities would have to have a way of asking the target 
> OS's package system for the name of the package that contained the 
> appropriate libraries. This probably implies talking to a repository 
> server, and also implies a build-time decision as to what versions of 
> each distro it is to be qualified for.

Some years ago, when I had to dig into automake, I got the idea of an 
platform manager. We already have OS specific parts in the FPC 
libraries, which could be extended for more services. Then we only have 
to agree about the API, and find a person for every OS, which keeps the 
extensions up to date.

DoDi