Its hard to interpret download numbers anyway. Its like youtube , you watch a
video because it has a million of views , to later find out that it had nothing
to really offer to you and living you perplexed why so many people even
bothered to watch it. I think the questions should be not how many people
download lazarus , but how many people actually use it . And also how many
people who would love to use lazarus don't even aware that lazarus exists.
Lazarus has reached a level of maturity I think that is time to start being
promoted outside Delphi ranks. I am very new with lazarus I started using the
laste few days, and I come from python though I used to be a Delphi user 15
years ago, but I certainly think that Lazarus and Free Pascal deserve a lot
more glory than they are getting. I did not use it all along because from the
website did not look to me like a serious product and it was not clear even
from using it how mature really is. There was not that thing to keep me
motivated to use it. I came back to it out of my frustration of not being able
to find an IDE on par with Delphi. And I am now hapily discover that is all I
wanted all along.
I will try to do my part in promoting Lazarus. Maybe even help improving the
look of the wiki a bit. I already have in mind a few ways to make lazarus very
tempting to non pascal coders and especially python coders like me. Keep up the
amazing work people.
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From: Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]>
To: Lazarus mailing list <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 3 August 2012, 11:28
Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and Free Pascal downloads plummeting on
SourceForge
Hi Everybody,
Lets just face the facts.... Such download statics are just "eye
candy" for SourceForge. There is no way you can take those as a
reliable source of information. It's like Microsoft trying to compare
Windows installs (actually copies shipped to OEM's) to Linux Install.
Nobody counts torrent downloads of Linux, nobody counts the multiple
of CD's I created and shared with my friends, nobody counted the
multiple times I installed a CD even though I only downloaded it once,
etc...
The same applies to FPC and Lazarus projects. You can install from
multiple locations: application repositories of Linux distros,
official downloaded archives, unofficial daily build archive, direct
checkouts from the repository, the fact that linux downloads tend to
be lots of little archives and the Windows version one big archive etc
etc.
So there you have it - those "statistics" are useless!!!
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