Talk:OS X Programming Tips

Hi folks,

I think that this page needs some reworking regarding all installation topics, because of 2 points.

1) In my opinion describing installation of what ever is not what I would expect under the topic Programming Tips in the first place. However, The description of installing stuff is a large part of this page.

2) There is already a page "Installing_Lazarus_on_MacOS_X". Quite a bit of the stuff here is a duplicate (in parts actually incomplete), at least in topic. Most of the additional stuff about installation on this page could possibly be moved to the other page.

So, my suggestion is to

1) add a link at the top of this page and move/merge as much as possible about installing stuff from this page to the other page.

2) create a new page "Installing_FreePascal_on_MacOS_X" similar to the lazarus one and just keep a link here.

Mischi

I somewhat hesitate to make such a large reorganization, because it means quite some work for me as well as i have not received any feedback and I do not want to invest time and effort in vane.

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Regarding the line splitting: Tip: In the script below, one of the lines is really long and may get chopped off when you print this page. Here's the line on two lines. Just be sure it's all one line in your script file. wouldn't it be better to just split the offending line and add a \ line continuation character if that works on OSX (reason why I didn't edit the page) JimBeam, March 2011