Bisma Jayadi wrote:
I believe a promotion will be easier when Lazarus gets 1.0.
Agree. But, without stable widgetset for (win)gdi (also with vista
support), gtk2 and qt (especially for linux), carbon and cocoa (for
mac) on Lazarus v.1.0, it is much less attractive. Perhaps I'm asking
to much here, but I think v.1.0 must fully supports wingdi, gtk2, and
carbon widgetset in complete and stable state.
Lazarus has improved in leaps and bounds, and I am confident it will in
the future also.
I myself don't have a mac, nor do I use linux on a day to day basis. In
any case they are all technical issues that don't have a bi impact on
the message that is projected.
I can think of one big operating system maker, who advertises something
that looks wonderful on tv, but developers say that it isn't worth the
effort. Yet they've been doing it for years. Tell them to stop... :-)
A better example closer to our space is xHarbour. It is an xBase (dbase)
compiler. Say what you like about the dbase language - won't worry me.
But after using that thing (at a customer site) I got to quite like it.
I saw huge improvements over time and things that even I complained
about got fixed so I eventually ran out of complaints.
What is usually promoted is the bigger picture thing, the philosophy, or
whatever thing it is that is going to benefit society.
I still need to identify this and put it into words. This is the
important thing that we are "pushing".
At the moment, I'm not even sure what Lazarus is actually being used for
in the real world, or how many are using it. So if I could get some
summaries or broad generalisations then that would be helpful.
Commercial systems ? Corporate Apps ? OpenGL ? System tools ? Student
Training Tool? I really don't know...
The way I see it is that it is the open-source cross platform successor
to delphi... and that seems to be enough to run with in my opinion for a
while...
Regards
David
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