<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Its hard to interpret download numbers anyway. Its like youtube , you watch a video because it has a million of views , to later find out that it had nothing to really offer to you and living you perplexed why so many people even bothered to watch it. I think the questions should be not how many people download lazarus , but how many people actually use it . And also how many people who would love to use lazarus don't even aware that lazarus exists. </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Lazarus has reached a level of maturity I think that is time to start being promoted outside Delphi ranks. I am very new with lazarus I started using the laste few days, and I come from python though I used to be a Delphi user 15 years ago, but I certainly think that Lazarus and Free Pascal deserve a lot more glory than they are
getting. I did not use it all along because from the website did not look to me like a serious product and it was not clear even from using it how mature really is. There was not that thing to keep me motivated to use it. I came back to it out of my frustration of not being able to find an IDE on par with Delphi. And I am now hapily discover that is all I wanted all along. </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>I will try to do my part in promoting Lazarus. Maybe even help improving the look of the wiki a bit. I already have in mind a few ways to make lazarus very tempting to non pascal coders and especially python coders like me. Keep up the amazing work people. </span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Lazarus mailing list <lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 3 August 2012, 11:28<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus and Free Pascal downloads plummeting on SourceForge<br> </font> </div> <br>Hi Everybody,<br><br>Lets just face the facts.... Such download statics are just "eye<br>candy" for SourceForge. There is no way you can take those as a<br>reliable source of information. It's like Microsoft trying to compare<br>Windows installs (actually copies shipped to OEM's) to Linux Install.<br>Nobody counts torrent downloads of Linux, nobody counts the multiple<br>of CD's I created and shared with my friends, nobody counted the<br>multiple times I installed a CD even though I only downloaded it
once,<br>etc...<br><br>The same applies to FPC and Lazarus projects. You can install from<br>multiple locations: application repositories of Linux distros,<br>official downloaded archives, unofficial daily build archive, direct<br>checkouts from the repository, the fact that linux downloads tend to<br>be lots of little archives and the Windows version one big archive etc<br>etc.<br><br>So there you have it - those "statistics" are useless!!!<br><br><br>-- <br>Regards,<br> - Graeme -<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit<br><a href="http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://fpgui.sourceforge.net</a><br><br>--<br>_______________________________________________<br>Lazarus mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org" href="mailto:Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org">Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org</a><br><a
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