[Lazarus] TListView compatibility Delphi <=> Lazarus?

[waldo kitty]

On 10/12/2010 17:17, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:12:15 +0200, Reimar Grabowski<reimgrab at web.de>
> wrote:
>> Installation and compilation from sources is very easy on Linux (I gave
>> instructions in another thread). You don't have to do it but the svn
>> version is always the 'latest and greatest(tm)' (minus the occasional
>> bugs crawling in but you have svn so no problem with that).
>> I don't know about Win but it can't be that hard (perhaps for Joe User
>> but you are a developer after all). I assume you talk about this page:
>> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus.
>> Please provide detailed feedback where you had problems and what is not
>> explained good enough so that the documentation can be improved.
>
> I read it and there is no need for any special things on Ubuntu since
> as far as I can see I get the latest by sudo apt-get install lazarus.

slight correction here... "the latest" is not *the* latest... it is "the latest 
official package"... *the* latest comes directly from SVN and must be compiled 
first... it brings features, bug fixes and possibly some bugs...

> My problem is *Windows* and here the page clearly states:
> "Specific for platform
> Get Lazarus for Windows - use the Sourceforge link above."
>
> And that is where the year old version resides....
> That's as detailed I can get concerning that page.

just like the above... that is the latest official public release...