On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:45:07 -0600, L505 wrote > > > It's not just people doing work though - it is also communicating > about the attitudes of the current people in charge too.
People in charge? There aren't people in charge. There are the people who own the code and have written the code. Wheither you use FPC/Lazarus as a user or not FPC/Lazarus is owned by the people who have written it. I assume that makes them 'in charge' as you put it but that would be the same if it was closed source and they just sold you a binary. They didn't. They decided to open it to the world to enjoy and help. > On every single successful project, there is always lots of discussion > and lots of code. Not just lots of code alone. Lots of code alone are > the one man developer projects that become a selfish endeavor of one > attitude from one developer (if two developers are on the project, > it leads to two different code bases because of disagreement and > no discussion on plans). Actually there is lots of discussion in both camps. They both have private developers lists where lots of design takes place. They decide direction and implementation on these lists. The FPC team being located in Europe also meet occasionally to discuss issues. FPC is at this point going on 14 years old. This isn't just some unorganized effort that has been going on. It has lasted and grown for that length of time. Lazarus is around 6 years old. It has fewer developers but still an organized effort. > Some of our attitudes our not in line. Some of us will and already > are using FPC/Pascal for real work.. and pleasure too. This confused me. What is 'real work'. You mean only work for a business or enterprise is real work? > But not just pleasure and not just hobby. What scares me most is the > hobby attitude because I know FPC is much more than just hobby quality. Well for one I don't recall anyone ever stating that FPC/Lazarus was a hobby. I do recall it being stated that it was worked on for fun. That isn't the same thing. > Look, if we only use FPC for hobby and then we go off and use a real > tool like MS VC or GCC for real work, how does that make FPC look? I have never been able to understand your attitude until this email. The above line indicates your attitude. You state, "...then we go off and use a real tool like MS VC" >From this it indicates that you do not think of FPC or Lazarus as a real tool. Now the question is, why? Is it because it doesn't have some business, foundation, or organization behind it. Maybe you don't think a tool is real unless it has some stricked organization that controls everything. -- ==== Programming my first best destiny! ==== Michael A. Hess Miracle Concepts, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.miraclec.com Phone: 570-388-2211 Fax: 570-388-6101 _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
