2009/11/29 Marc Weustink <[email protected]>: > > Since we think it's not ready for 1.0. > Period.
I know Lazarus is your guys project and we are simple users don't have much say. But with that attitude, I think you guys are hurting Lazarus image more. Companies and professional developers simply do not want to try pre-v1 and "beta" software in a commercial environment. Our company probably being the exception after I convinced them the benefits of FPC and Lazarus. Critical bugs and easily be fixed due to having the code available, and because Lazarus is a active project. Windows users (clearly being the majority) simply do not like "beta" or pre-v1 software. Stopping those users, means you guys loose out on potential new contributors to Lazarus. I know there isn't a direct correlation between "users of Lazarus" and "contributions to Lazarus", but the more users you guys get, the better chances you stand in getting contributors. That's fact. Maybe the other issue that comes to play is everybody here are developers and know squat about marketing. Currently Lazarus is very badly marketed. Small things have already been done to help Lazarus is this regard. For example, improving the "look" of Lazarus IDE by standardizing and improving the look of the icons used. Even though that doesn't really add any features to Lazarus, it sure stopped the comments like "Lazarus is just plain ugly and looks outdated". So that was a positive move. Just like getting Lazarus to v1 will be a positive move. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
