[Lazarus] TMS component for lazarus released

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On 9/17/08, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I doubt it, since you must recompile lazarus, and chances that it recompiles
> >  an LCL file are very close to 1...
> 
> This makes it very hard for commercial component writers then.  I
> guess all that remains for them, is to produce a binary demo for all
> supported platforms. At least that way the developer can play with the
> component properties before they decide to purchase the source.

Exactly. This is what I proposed.

> Umm, does that also means that the commercial component writers would
> have to *always* sell you the full source code?  I guess this is not
> so bad, we always bought delphi components that included full source
> code.

Given my experience that all components I ever bought had bugs which 
I had to fix myself, you can imagine that I would never in my life buy 
components if I don't get the source code with it. So I don't see 
this as a problem.

Michael.