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Third party / Re: InstallAware Using Lazarus IDE
« Last post by marcov on Today at 04:46:46 pm »Quote
Right now it's plain impossible to install official Lazarus releases on most Linux environments, unless you're using FPCUPDLX. Again, it is exactly the same for Apple Silicon native macOS installations - for which there's no PKG installer available, period. FPCUPDLX is a heroic effort, but has a track record of backing itself into corners it cannot get itself out of (I've been seeing error 512 and/or outright hangs of the compilation process on virtually every Linux system I've tried it on, when using FPC 3.3.1 and Trunk/Stable Lazarus).
I replied about changing the working windows to something else. I don't see the point of that, since the shared aspect will be low as I said as every OS has its own files and directories.
But be my guest, start building and iterating installers, and we'll see how it goes.
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Am I the only one in thinking this investment would pay off dividends over time? Instead of maintaining multiple - and disparate - PKG, DEB, RPM installation scripts
Since the distributions only integrate those(deb,pkg), and most users install via their distro tools this is a strange statement. I don't know much about OSX practicalities.
And I think the different iterations of the installer scripts for various OSes and distros should not be underestimated either.
Anyway, the only thing is just go out and try if you feel strong about it.