[Lazarus] Release 1.0, part 2

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Vincent Snijders escribió:
> Does that mean, we should stop fixing bugs, because you only get more?
>
No, that mean that a feature freezee is needed to order to achieve an 
stable release. No new features accepted until all blocking BUGS were 
solved. Lazarus is stable enough and mature enought to had been released 
as stable many years later.

I think that if a widgeset has not a mantainer/core developer/master or 
whatever you would name he or she, then that widgeset would not be 
officialy supported and should not block any stable release. For 
example, the gtk1 widgeset, if no one is interested in develop and 
mataining it, mark all gtk bugs as 'suspended' or 'non-blocking'. If 
gtk2 hasn't a mantainer, well that only shows up that nobody has enought 
interest to develop it ... so related bugs should not be blocking.

Also there are a thing that shock me out completly: ¿why should Lazarus 
mantain backward compatibility with Delphi?
First of all, Delphi is not suited to compile anyother platform outside 
of windows. Delphi programs tend to use windows api extensively, that 
will not work for lazarus! Also, all components used by a delphi program 
need to be ported before trying to convert a Delphi project, and usually 
this is impossible due to lack of access to source code.
Also is proved that any non-trivial Delphi project will need some type 
of workarround to work properly with Lazarus, and if you make that 
changes, it will not compile anymore with Delphi ... that's crazy for 
Lazarus development!

Provide a good Delphi->Lazarus converter if you want and drop Delphi 
specific issues. Be free to work with the most efficient way you can. 
Break compatiblity whenever you need to create a better ide. Users will 
increase and, eventually some of them will contribute to Lazarus 
development...

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