[Lazarus] Auto Update Request

[Salvatore Coppola]

2015-04-13 16:28 GMT+02:00 Martin Frb <lazarus at mfriebe.de>:

> On 13/04/2015 14:58, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
>
>> On 13/04/15 14:28, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>
>>> Do you need additional features: a diff kind of update,
>>>
>> My bet's primarily on this one.
>>
>>
> Well then the question is, is the request for
> - an AUTO update (same download, just the IDE checks for it)
> - an UPDATE installer, that reduces the download size.
>
> Of course ideally both.
>
> IMHO the rebuild with your packages should not be part of the installer,
> but be done when you run the IDE. Same as we have the setup screen,the IDE
> could probably detect that the configured packages are no longer installed,
> and ask.
>
> As for the installer size, their are many options. The problem is
> manpower. Such installers have to be build in order to be provided, and
> someone has to do this on every release.
>
> Speaking of the windows installer (I do not know the others)
> It be possible to build an Lazarus only, no fpc, if you already have fpc
> in the correct version from the last install. But it needs to be build each
> time. And it will add work on support, if people try to use it with an
> older fpc,
> It would also be possible to just install tho Lazarus sources, no ppu
> included, and then build them locally (more time to install, less download).
>
>
IMHO this features are only a needless complexity. Both for Lazarus and
FPC, SVN or Git do the work in a excellent way for a good programmer (i
suppose Lazarus and FPC users are programmers). I'm an hobbist programmer
(very poor for the truth) but I've no problems to update via SVN


> There are many possible variations. But they all will take time for
> building and testing on every release.
>
>
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