[Lazarus] multiple versions and portable lazarus

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 31 May 2011 23:23:58 +0200
Roberto Padovani <padovani.r at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/5/31 Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>:
> > On Tue, 31 May 2011 21:34:23 +0200
> > Roberto Padovani <padovani.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The current config directory is shown in
> > View / IDE Internals / About IDE
> 
> I'll give you some feedback on this tomorrow.
> 
> >
> >
> >>[...]
> >> Generally speaking, why do I have to _install_ (in the win32 sense)
> >> lazarus?
> >
> > It registers file types, creates desktop shortcuts and sets the path
> > to FPC and FPC sources.
> >
> >> Isn't it possible to have a portable installation?
> >
> > It is possible. You need 0.9.31 and a start script. The script depends
> > on your needs.
> >
> 
> Very good, wanna try it!
> Can you please hint a specific trunk release? Or a snapshot (even
> better so that I can download it directly at work without svn access)
> ?

As far as I know the trunk revision 30992 has only two known
regressions. The close button is not transparent+windows and carbon and
the onmousedown comes after the popup menu in gtk2. Probability is high
that there are some unknown regressions, but they are unknown.

Mattias