[Lazarus] Suggestion for IDE

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2014, Maciej Izak wrote:

> Juha Manninen, Michael Van Canneyt, FreeMan
>  
> I am still curious about what is FreeSparta?
> 
>  
> FreeSparta is the new Lazarus distro. The aim of the project is to provide better quality and user experience (at the
> beginning only for windows, maybe with "out of the box" cross-compilation). 
> 
> I want to start FreePascal/Lazarus foundation named FreeSparta, which will be possible to sponsor new open source libraries
> (gestures, live bindings / data binding, more Delphi compatible RTL, remote debugger, ToolsAPI). FreeSparta license is the
> same as Lazarus but it will be possible to buy an optional extra quality tools. I want to enter the synergy (and accelerate
> the development of Lazarus and FPC) between the open source project and commercial additives. 
> 
> With first release will be included the "Generics.*" library (new and much better version of fpc-generics-collections),
> fixes for a few (IMO) critical Lazarus errors and new modern UX.
> 
> Project is almost ready :). 

Why not simply cooperate with the FPC and Lazarus teams ? 
I'm sure they will welcome additional manpower. FPC accepts patches, so does Lazarus.

These fragmented projects really are not fun. Discrepancies will start growing.
Soon the FPC team will have to go back to using a text editor to ensure code works in all IDEs :(

Michael.