I honestly think this conversation would be better served asking questions like
How can Lazarus get noticed more? How can Lazarus get more exposure/adoption? How can Lazarus get industry sponsorship? How can Lazarus get educational institutions to explore development using Lazarus/FPC? IMO, a larger percentage of the development space is something that can be attained. Support for alternative operating systems like linux and offer a break from Microsoft (namely via Ubuntu) should be a marketing sweet spot. Library support for hot topic Information Technologies. FPC/Lazarus must follow trends and include components. A broad range of component support is essential. Example: Social is trendy so FPC/Lazarus should come with components to interface with Craigslist / Facebook / Twitter / Google . Access requires http or https requests so openssl would need to be more fully developed. IMO, the bottom line is - the more components supported the easier Lazarus makes it for a developer to download and develop what they need. MORE IS MORE. I often find myself needing a library ported to FPC. Recently I came across the Lucene project. With Lucene developers can create full text search / document searches. I need a lucene component or something like it. Enterprise search is BIG. It would be ideal. Then you get in the search engines for Lucene keyword and voila - a developer is going to evaluate Lazarus/FPC for adoption. But the more developed these components are the better chance will be for the developer to recommend Lazarus. And for the firm/institution will approve it. Having used FPC/Lazarus for 3 years now I have to say I'm impressed on how long and far these two projects have come. More components, and since development team is limited - chose wisely when tapping into trendy development networks. Exposure by way of component ports. Components need to be native to FPC and when a component in implemented a concerted effort needs to be made to make sure Links back to FPC/Lazarus must be placed, and the Lazarus Wiki should be updated with a dedicated page for that component and an HTTP link BACK to the targeted components' page. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
