Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-05 Thread Roland Schäfer
Dear fpc-pascal, On 02/05/2015 12:00 PM, fpc-pascal-requ...@lists.freepascal.org wrote: Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 17:43:09 -0500 From: Anthony Walter sys...@gmail.com To: FPC-Pascal users discussions fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative Ralph

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-05 Thread Jonas Maebe
...@lists.freepascal.org wrote: Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 17:43:09 -0500 From: Anthony Walter sys...@gmail.com To: FPC-Pascal users discussions fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative Ralph, not to be rude, but you are either not paying attention or being dense. I said

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 04/02/15 06:00, Anthony Walter wrote: The get Lazarus initiative aims to an reintroduce Lazarus to the software development world. To aide in this endeavor we've created our own special Lazarus bundles for Windows, Mac, and Linux with test versions of Free Pascal 3.0 Lazarus 1.4. Thank you

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/4/2015 3:20 AM, Anthony Walter wrote: Okay, I'll work on new builds ASAP which include the revision numbers from inside Lazarus as well as clearly labeled revision text files placed in the FPC and Lazarus folders. These files will contain the branch name and SVN revision number. I've

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/4/2015 12:22 PM, Anthony Walter wrote: Ralph, regarding the first point of FPC 3.0, we already discussed it in previous replies. Check those messages to get caught up. My general objection still stands... Regarding the automatic download, I'm not sure where you are talking about. As

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread DaWorm
Also, please make a ZIP version available for download on Windows. Many corporate firewalls completely block downloading EXE files from non-trusted sites (and getting a site on the trusted list is non-trivial, to say the least). Thanks, Jeff. ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Anthony Walter
Ralph, regarding the first point of FPC 3.0, we already discussed it in previous replies. Check those messages to get caught up. Regarding the automatic download, I'm not sure where you are talking about. The big DOWNLOAD NOW button with the cloud icon initiates a download, while also redirecting

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Anthony Walter
Ralph, not to be rude, but you are either not paying attention or being dense. I said: 'And one hyper link with on the front page with the words get Lazarus today does the same thing.' And it's a wiki you can edit. If you think that one link should either highlight the word today, or want it to

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Daniel Franzini
Congratulations for such initiative. Very nice. I hope this helps Lazarus/FPC to get more visibility. Just one point: I'd strongly recommend you provide a build with stable/production versions of Lazarus and FreePascal. They are the best the Lazarus/FPC team can offer and they have production

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Anthony Walter
Okay, I'll work on new builds ASAP which include the revision numbers from inside Lazarus as well as clearly labeled revision text files placed in the FPC and Lazarus folders. These files will contain the branch name and SVN revision number. I've modified the line you mentioned to read To get the

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Anthony Walter
Jonas, I'll re-add the svn revision number in my next round of builds wich will follow shortly. I was rebuilding all OS bundles from the same revision and copied them to my test systems. Unfortunately I deleted all the svn tracking files before I did my first copy, which removes maybe 100s of

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 04 Feb 2015, at 11:37, Anthony Walter wrote: Jonas, I'll re-add the svn revision number in my next round of builds wich will follow shortly. I was rebuilding all OS bundles from the same revision and copied them to my test systems. Unfortunately I deleted all the svn tracking files

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Anthony Walter
Jonas, I hope this helps. I try to say Test versions of Free Pascal 3.0 all over the place on the website. The installers all say test version of Free Pascal 3.0. The Windows Installer says this in really big bold words up top when you launch the setup.exe. All the icons on the end users systems

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Anthony Walter
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Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Anthony Walter sys...@gmail.com wrote: I am please to announce the launch of a new initiative to promote Free Pascal and Lazarus. The hub of this initiative is http://www.getlazarus.org The get Lazarus initiative aims to an reintroduce Lazarus to the software

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Daniel Franzini
Quick fix: in the download page, the link to the InnoSetup website is wrong. Should be: http://www.getlazarus.org/setup/www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Daniel Franzini daniel.franz...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations for such initiative. Very nice. I hope this

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-04 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/4/2015 2:43 PM, Anthony Walter wrote: Ralph, not to be rude, but you are either not paying attention or being dense. I said: I am not dense, but you seem to go that direction. For one, my name is Ralf not Ralph. Looks like you need to pay attention... 'And one hyper link with on the

[fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-03 Thread Anthony Walter
I am please to announce the launch of a new initiative to promote Free Pascal and Lazarus. The hub of this initiative is http://www.getlazarus.org The get Lazarus initiative aims to an reintroduce Lazarus to the software development world. To aide in this endeavor we've created our own special