[Lazarus] It is a beautiful day...

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 20 Jul 2019, Mattias Gaertner via lazarus wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 11:59:56 +0200
> Werner Pamler via lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
>> Great news!
>> 
>> There is one more thing which would be helpful, at least for me. I am 
>> maintaining the Lazarus port of JVCL, and this library currently 
>> consists of 16 runtime and designtime packages (i.e. 32 lpk files),
>> and when porting proceeds there will be more to follow. As you an
>> imagine, it is a pain to install them manually...
>> 
>> I already set up a project group which can compile all the packages,
>> but what is missing is a way to install them. I mean: Could there be
>> a button "Install"? After clicking on this button a routine should
>> iterate through all the items of the project group, find the design
>> time packages, mark them for installation, and finally rebuild the
>> IDE. Can this be done?
>
> You could create a meta package and install that.

That is one way, but I think the 'install' option would of course also be
nice to have. The program group is already there after all. Making a new
file just for install purposes seems superfluous...

Michael.