> It's a matter of the glass being > half-empty or half-full. Graeme currently sees a half-empty glass.
I think the point of these threads is not how one views a partially filled glass... but that it remains in a partial state year after year with no clear goal to ever make it full. A Lazarus 1.0 would go a long way toward filling the glass, but it's only half of the equation. To provide a stable and production ready platform, the compiler developers must also commit to respecting developer codebases and not breaking them with frivolous language changes... otherwise even with a Lazarus 1.0, the glass will remain clouded and one that large scale and commercial developers will continue to avoid drinking from. Tools are judged by what they have built... not on their potential. Frustration sometimes bubbles up on these threads because the potential is there... and the potential is great! No other open source tool of comparable power exists for generating light, fast, self contained and cross-platform graphical apps with an equally fast and full featured IDE. Given the bloated or proprietary alternatives, Lazarus/FPC should be the tool of choice for creating world class apps for all the major OS environments... but as Graeme accurately pointed out, what we have today is still "potential". The only thing that is stopping Lazarus/FPC from become a stable, mainstream production tool is attitudes... and I'm hoping threads like these will cause a change of focus across the core teams from feature development to "stabilize what we have and to release 1.0" as Paul Ishenin suggested yesterday. Thanks, -Tom -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
