My reason for complaining about Lazarus, and calling it "unusable", is
that it suffers from worse usability defects (for what I want to use it for)
than even the worst-ever versions of Delphi such as Delphi 2005.
If Lazarus could be as useful to me as Delphi 7, I would change my
opinion from "nice little toy", to "amazing open source platform" pretty
quickly.
It's not that I hate Lazarus. I am deeply disappointed with it.
All the whiners who stopped buying from CodeGear because of low quality,
seem to have no problem with the low quality and the missing basic
features of Lazarus that Delphi has had since Delphi 3.0.
You still can't install packages in Lazarus because the underlying FPC
compiler lacks a runtime package system that could support a more
delphi-like designtime/runtime packages installation system. Which by
the way is the worst part of Delphi. Everyone complains about Delphi
component installation headaches.
If Lazarus develops ANY package support whatsoever, I'll contribute and
help make it better. But until the FPC base compiler supports some kind
of runtime package support, I see no point working on the top level GUI
(lazarus). Maybe I should try to help the FPC team write package
support. I don't know if I can, I have zero compiler-writing experience.
Cross platform matters to me. So I'm not like most of the "lazarus
haters". I'm not a hater at all. But I am a critic.
Warren
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