I think I'll just play with RealBasic instead, it has a simple installer. There aren't enough free hours in the day to spend time working out just how to install an app.
Are you sure you want to give up so easily? I know it may seem overwhelming -- new tools, new IDE, new platform (it sounds like you haven't programmed on the Mac before) -- and certainly the installation needs to become easier someday, but Lazarus on OS X is really starting to move, what with Tom G's push on creating a native Carbon widgetset. This means that the programs you develop will have no dependencies other than Carbon, which is installed on every Mac.
I think so, yes. I have such little spare time that I cannot possibly waste it just trying to get something to install. If it installed easily then I'd take another look, but at the moment I don't feel it is worth it. I'm not bothered about fixing bugs etc, that is productive, manual and labourious installation doesn't feel that way though.
As for Carbon, I really want to write multi-platform apps. I presume that library (name escapes me at the moment) is multi-platform but does it require installed DLLs on the target machine?
If someone comes up with a good installer for the Mac then please let me know :-)
Pete