2006/5/20, Zlatko Matić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Activities around making free open-source alternative to MS .NET (Mono,
dotGNU) and Visual Studio .NET (MonoDevelop,SharpDevelop) are very intensive
and rapidly aproaches to the final goal.
With recent incuding of Stetic, It is easy to forseen that MonoDevelop will
soon become visual RAD tool comparable to Visual Studio. Also, it will
probably be working on Windows too, in some not very distant future.
SharpDevelop, with its support for Windows Forms, is even now completely
functional and is great alternative to Visual Studio on Windows platform.
With it's support for Mono and GTK# it will probably evolve to
cross-platform RAD tool.
So, my questions is whether Lazarus can compete MonoDevelop and SharpDevelop
in the era of .NET in both WIndows and Linux?
Will Lazarus face similar fate like Delphi?
Just for thinking, not for arguing...
It is, I believe, a good thing to think about. I will resume my idea
in only two points, if this was possible; I'm not an old-timer in this
project, nor in core devel:
- have a roadmap for a final stable release of a version 1 with
anticipated work load, tasks, and probable release date (we already
have some parts of that point) -- clear project management to direct
efforts;
- have a visible and strong community of people that use the tool in
major projects and commercial projects; this will influence people to
also choose this technology for other projects since it has major
adoption -- project visibility and adoption.
But I know, this is an open source project; but with no leadership...
people will leave the ship :). But I know delphi was (and is still)
very popular, but for some reasons there is the perception of (or
real) market loss. I have not idea why. Maybe others have.
My 2 cents, for thinking too, not for arguing.
--
Alexandre Leclerc
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