[Lazarus] Status of Service Applications Revisited

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:27:06 -0500
Andrew Brunner <andrew.t.brunner at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was just reviewing FPC and Lazarus service capabilities.
> 
> Presently, I must install the lazdaemon package to enable Lazarus to
> build Service Applications.  Years have passed without the default
> option to create a service application?  Why must I install a package
> to create a basic platform essential application.
> 
> Does anyone else want to address this issue?  I'd like to see Lazarus
> have the option to create Service Apps "out of the box".  I would
> suggest, that for platforms that are supported, install the package
> with all the other packages.  For platform installation with no
> package support for lazdaemon, just don't include that package.
> 
> Comments?

Under Linux the lazdaemon package captures signals. For example Ctrl-C
does not work.


Mattias