Just NOW fragmenting? Sure... [LWN.net]

Just NOW fragmenting? Sure...

Posted Mar 1, 2006 11:43 UTC (Wed) by dmantione (guest, #4640)
In reply to: Just NOW fragmenting? Sure... by bk
Parent article: Linux fragmenting at last?

Perhaps there exist users that don't want to handle compilers, but do
want to install external software? Being author of such software (Free
Pascal compiler) I can say it ain't easy to support a lot of
distributions. And we're one of the few projects that can support
multiple Linux distributions with a single download, because we do not
depend on the compatibility horror that libc is.

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Just NOW fragmenting? Sure...

Posted Mar 1, 2006 17:13 UTC (Wed) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link]

And how many users that don't want to handle compilers find themselves
installing your compiler?

Just NOW fragmenting? Sure...

Posted Mar 1, 2006 17:26 UTC (Wed) by dmantione (guest, #4640) [Link]

Ok, lets test it, you sound like a professional user, which is able to
install a program from source code. Here is documentation how to compile
it from source:

http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/buildfaq.pdf

... and the source code:

ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/source-2.0.2

You can find a distribution independend binary distribution here:

ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/i386-linux-2.0.2

... which one do you prefer?

Oh, and you don't want to tell to someone who needs to learn programming
that he's going to need to compile Free Pascal from source code to
install it.