Hi Lee, first of all, thanks for your detailed reply.
But let me keepthis short: Lee Jenkins wrote: > I've been using Lazarus on Windows seriously for about a year now and > I've become pretty damn productive with it. Nice to hear, and I do believe you. But i do not like the mouse and I don't even have one (on any of my 4 PCs base local net) The IDE is simply not operable without a mouse. The compiler is surely able to do the actual work for creating executables used within a productive environment. I didn't want to offense anyone with my opinion regarding the state of the IDE. > I've been using Lazarus because I want my current projects to be > cross-platform. same here! > That is the value for me and my customers. As nice as > Delphi2007 IDE *really* is, it doesn't compile cross-platform or even to > 64 bit, but Lazarus does. No.You are right. And since borland changed to inprise, and back to borland,and forth to codegear, dropping off Kylix underway ... I am not really convinced by the company-politics anymore (and I really have been a "BorMAN") > And what's more, Lazarus is on par with > Delphi6 (IMO) IDE which makes it the most workable, viable and robust > solution for using ObjectPascal to build apps portable between platforms. You don't need to convince me :-) > Like me, you're probably impressed with the increased level of traffic > and involvement there is in the freepascal and lazarus projects over the > last couple of years. Its enough to give me the confidence to use > lazarus/freepascal for some production, commercial products. Really good to hear, that there are people with concepts, that go far beyond a 'proof of concept'.... > Welcome Back! TNX -- -hy ___________________________________________________ | | hy-soft data-engineering | |mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |--------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives