Refer to my other post. In my view the whole marketing of the project is to be overhauled to make the technology (free pascal and lazarus) more attractive to potential new users.
Some suggestions include: * have a single entry point for free pascal and lazarus * the look and feel of the free pascal and lazarus web site could both do with an overhaul * lazarus would be well and evidently advertised as an important feature of free pascal- currently there is only an icon about Lazarus with no explaination and no other obvious links to the project! * there would be a comprehensive tutorial on how to get started with Freepascal and with lazarus - currently there is no tutorial that present the major features of the language and the easiest wat is to look at one of the tutorial for Delphi. One could think as the tutorial for Python as a very good tutorial providing a clear overview of the language to new users - see http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/tut/tut.html * the whole help and documentation side of things could be made more easy; with a common portal for documentation for both Lazarus and Freepascal * access to an easy repository of packages that work with free pascal / lazarus à la cpan and cpan search - see http://search.cpan.org/ It may add value for Lazarus to distance itself from Delphi. Delphi has the bad connotation to be a proprietary product of a company on the decline. On 8/15/05, Alain Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > this week-end, I have been browsing at my local book store: > > -- hundreds of book about Java, php, html, C++, etc... Many many more > books than actual programers! > -- five books about eclipse. > -- one or two old books about Delphi, > -- NO books about lazarus. > > I do not want to criticize or tell poeple what they should do, > however I see that the project is very close to have its first official > release and then a big anouncement should made in the media and > eventually a book should be published. > > Thanks > > Alain > > > > On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 11:28 -0300, Arí Ricardo Ody wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 14:56:54 +0200, Florian Klämpfl > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > > > > De: Florian Klämpfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Data: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 14:56:54 +0200 > > > Para: [email protected] > > > Assunto: Re: Eclipse > > > > > > Raphael Alla wrote: > > > > and everyone knows about Eclipse? > > > > > > Because of a lot of marketing by big companies? > > > > There is a big and blue motivation, of course master Florian and master > Raphael. > > > > But eclipse generate java code, doesn't it? Netbeans from Sun generates > too. > > > > I can't understand why you associate eclipse with lazarus Raphael? > > > > I can't understand why people talk too much about java and nothing about > the good old pascal. I program in both languages and think that pascal is > much more easy, heave more powerful contructions and the IDE's(Lazarus and > Delphi) have visual components much more beatiful and well-designed. The > aspect of the resultant applications look better. > > > > Greetings from Sao Paulo - Brazil > > > > Ricardo > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > "unsubscribe" as the Subject > > archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives > > _________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject > archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives > _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
