On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Vincent Snijders <vsnijd...@vodafonevast.nl> wrote:
> Help me, please. > > What is the purpose of a creating a 1.0 release: > A. Marketing, getting more people of the threshold to use Lazarus > or > B. Forcing Lazarus developers to keep stable interfaces B makes A possible. There is no point to releasing a 1.0 for publicity reasons if the publicity is going to end up being bad due to instability and code breakage. That would only make Lazarus/FPC a well publicized failure. Given that choice, I'd rather see the project continue to plod along in the obscure beta niche that it occupies now. 1.0 in a development tool means a production stable platform for application builders... B. If the 1.0 you release meets that requirement, you will have A... and probably fairly quickly. Delphi grew rapidly in the late 90's because developers liked RAD and felt confident that the tool was solid and their sources would continue to compile as they upgraded it. The company also didn't refer to it's customers as "users". They valued their developer base and a team was created to maintain the confidence and enthusiasm that the initial quality of the product inspired. When that relationship eventually faultered, so did the product and the company. After 10 years of development, this project should have some of that same confidence and enthusiasm in it's developer base. At this point there's lots of enthusiasm and a production stable 1.0 would start building confidence. If there's no commitment to that goal, please don't release a 1.0, keep plodding along with the betas, have fun and don't worry about breaking "user" generated code that will frustrate anyone who tries to pick up and do anything serious with this toolchain. Next year we can always revisit this topic and see how well that strategy has worked by counting all the new Lazarus projects and apps along with the number of developers that have joined the project... or left it. Thanks, -Tom -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
