On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:48:25 +0000, Graeme Geldenhuys <mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:
>On 22/03/2019 17:04, Martok wrote: >> Especially for tiny teams, the decision of spending 6k or hiring a new >> developer to maintain the toolchain is, sadly, a no-brainer. > >I developed fpGUI before I started working at that company. Same with >tiOPF, not initially developed by me, but existed loooong before they >used it. The company spent a ton of money chasing Borland's dream... >Choosing Delphi 7, then the promise of cross platform future with CLX, >so they purchased Kylix 3 for all developers. All that expense (products >and coding time) just to find out that it will be killed off. They >discovered Free Pascal and Lazarus with improved cross-platform support, >but Lazarus was to buggy at the time and no possibility of per app >theming (still not possible to this day - even though Delphi has it >since XE2). > >Anyway, I proposed fpGUI and demoed it with a prototype application. It >had rough edges because fpGUI was just a hobby of mine at the time. They >saw potential and agreed to use it and I could spend _part_ of my time >improving it for their [product] benefit. The company wins as they get >the flexibility they needed and software that will not be abandoned, and >the open source project wins as it gets some paid development and >improvements with commercial backing and testing. > >fpGUI is not an isolated case. I was hired to implement fpPDF and >fpReport among other things. The company benefited as they needed >something that didn't yet exist (PDF and Reporting engine with no GUI >dependencies, implemented in Object Pascal). In return the company >released that code back to the Free Pascal project. > >There are 1000's of cases like this in all kinds of open source projects. > Graeme, this is interesting. The link you provided in your signature gets me to a place where versions are displayed and the last one is 1.4.1 from 2015-09-02. Is this a final version not in need of any new stuff? And is it a development IDE or a plugin for Lazarus? Or something else entirely? -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
