[Lazarus] Lazarus config woes

[Lukasz Sokol]

On 31/03/2011 13:02, Andreas Schneider wrote:

> Sorry,  but  a  newbie  shouldn't  juggle  with  a  bunch  of  lazarus
> installations  of  different  versions  in the first place. Either you
> know  what  you are doing, or you don't. In the latter case: stay away
> from it until you do :D
> 
What about a casual user, who is somewhat familiar, usually runs and uses 
stable snapshots of both FPC and Laz and wants to try new Lazarus/FPC pair 
version without removing the old one first (e.g. using lazarus from SVN) 
to see whether his program will still be compiling/running, even if he's 
not going to put this version of Laz/FPC into production YET...?
(and, not willing to use another physical/virtual machine for this purpose...)
(trivial example : Juha's work on Lazarus interface... or the new features
of FPC 2.5.X)

I'd like to try that, but >for me< the threshold is a tad too high to 
understand and perform this in say 15 minutes, on a non-trivial project?
(here I assume I will do a special SVN checkout of my project to a different
working directory, intended only for non-production use)

> I  don't  say it would be nice to have a friendlier solution, but it's
> definitely  not  that important - there are more important things than
> supporting  multiple  concurrent  installations  out-of-the-box  (in a
> newbie-friendly way).

See above. I'd happily try even SVN of FPC/Laz without it eating up my 
production environment.

> 
> However,  it  is  indeed  very important to verify the validity of the
> configs,  since  the  case  you  mentioned (upgrading lazarus and then
> having  the wrong compiler paths etc.) is not that uncommon and indeed
> can hit newbies pretty hard.
> 
Not just any newbies. Maybe just newbies-to-Lazarus-development, that.

L.