On Nov 18, 2007 12:36 AM, Ciprian Mustiata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That solution is the today solution for two visions of the same problem: > what means Lazarus to became easy and more accepted. For a short term, for > sure Lazarus can be as Delphi 7 like as it wants.
There seams to be some confusion here. Lazarus IDE is not a clone of Delphi 7. The current format is what was considered the most productive. Of course it's possible to make changes to it, provided it's agreed they improve the IDE, and there is *no Delphi compatibility pretended on the IDE side*. The LCL library, on the other hand, provides a degree of Delphi compatibility, but that's something separate, and even there isn't a goal of being 100% compatible. We don't provide obsolete properties, for example. We provide extra properties and methods where adequate, etc. Having said that, The Lazarus approach of using native UI sets is a imensely complex one, and is only viable by having a large number of contributors which find and fix bugs. I would say that a fork won't have those resources, at least on the start, and is faded to be defeated by the complexity of the project it is forking, unless someone has a lot of resources to invest on it. Consider that all examples you posted of forks were backed by enterprises or large foundations. I think such goal of "thinking independent" can be more easely achieved by an independent project, like msegui and fpgui. In case you haven't seen: http://homepage.bluewin.ch/msegui/ http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ Such project has full freedom to do it's own design and can therefore choose a simpler to implement design which makes itself viable. > C# style autocompletion option for always be nice since I'm a lazy coder ;) I don't know that a "C# style autocompletion" is, but Lazarus IDE presents autocompletion in a number o ways. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
