On Jan 15, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Andrew Brunner wrote:
Vincent:
IOW: I expect Lazarus users to be knowledgeable, Lazarus is not for
fools.
I offer you all this. The #1 reason why Microsoft Windows (3 and
up) took
off and became so popular was Visual Basic for idiots and Turbo
Pascal /
Delphi for the coders between C++ and VB.
The long term success of this project would be cemented if we all
keep a
more welcoming attitude to all walks of developers.
(VB, Delphi, and C++) types should be able to utilize Lazarus in the
years
to come. Lazarus should even have an "Express" edition with more
powerful
features not even available.
IMO Lazarus has serious potential to rival that of Java. It just
needs more
time and backing.
IMO this file size issue is a serious problem for popular utilities
that
will run on anything. 8MB is totally unacceptable. We need a check
box
option in the compiler section to strip out all debugging code from
LCL and
make our distros tiny.
8Mb is unacceptable for an executable which would take 2Mb for a final
release, not for working on it. These 8Mb are generated for a good
reason.
All this discussion remember me another one about "multiple target".
This feature as far I remember is planned, but there are already a lot
of things to fix/do before that. I am sure it is your solution. You
would be able to run in Debug/Release mode as a Delphian would do.
How long will that take?
To follow the reaction of Vincent, I think the core team have already
a lot of work to do. The kind of work that extern contributors can not
do to my mind because it's required a deep knowledge of the LCL/
Lazarus/...
However for this kind of work, others can help them, to create a
patch, test it and modify it.
Consequently, I am not sure this is the good question :)
--
Damien Gerard
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Le temps n'a pas d'importance. Seul le code est important
-- (f00ty)
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