On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, fredvs via fpc-pascal wrote:
There's a prompt in the freepascal installer that asks for the prefix. Your
users should be capable of that?
As explained in previous post, the goal is to not touch the system.
If you use the fpc installer, even if you install it in the user's home
directory, the installer will create a fpc.cfg in /etc and that needs root
access.
This is simply not correct.
It will create one in your home directory if it detects you do not have root
access.
Of course users can do that but the goal of that patch is to have a compiler
totally out-of-the-box, that even dont need to configure or set anything.
Sorry but not all users are gurus.
No-one expects them to be. But if someone is unable to run install.sh,
and type in the name of a directory, then he has no business in programming.
You're not making a chat application, after all. You can expect some
rudimentary understanding of your users.
And sorry also if it dont follow the rules of the good old boy way.
This is not the 'good old boy' way. Why use such derogatory words ?
It's adapting to the system you work on, instead of clinging to wrong concepts
for that system.
Michael.
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