>The marketing side of things could be improved to "convert" more
>easily new users to Freepascal / Lazarus by making the whole concept
>more appealing
> * the look and feel of the free pascal web site could do with an overhaul
> * lazarus would be well and evidently advertised as a main feature -
>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
>
>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.
Agree with many of your points. I think why lazarus isn't marketed directly with
freepascal, is because lazarus is still kind of broken and freepascal is
stable. So if
lazarus is marketed with freepascal directly, it will appear freepascal is
broken, when in
fact it's lazarus.
If you chopped out the component palette out and used lazarus as an IDE without
components, it is still very powerful. But when you stuff the component pallet
into
people's faces, people think that's the only way to use the tool. So I think we
could go
as far as having a button/menu item to turn off the component palette .. and
then people
would see that Lazarus IDE can also be used like eclipse - i.e. not for just
visual
development. And I wont mention plugger again of course - because I still have
to work on
the LD -K-E option patch for fpc linux before I start tooting about it again.
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