[Lazarus] Lazarus Goal

[Henry Vermaak]

2009/11/12 Bee Jay <bee.ography at gmail.com>:
>> I did test the program with version 0.9.28.2 on my Mac.  It seems that the
>> mouse events and status bar don't work correctly.  Since  the menus on
>> Widows XP and OS X behave differently,  the program needs to be rewritten to
>> use buttons rather than menus to control the simulation and use menus to
>> simply open dialogs.
>
> You abandoned the whole program that has been written in pascal just because
> UI issue that actually can be solved? Wow!

Every issue can be solved, some of us just don't have
days/weeks/months to wait for it to be solved and some of us can't
solve it by ourselves.  Especially if someone else solved it elsewhere
already.  I had to port some pascal code a while ago because it didn't
work properly on a certain architecture.  That's life.

>
>> I needed  a CA simulator for my Mac and my original plan was to use
>> Lazarus and FPC,  but since that didn't work I wrote this Java program:
>
> Good for you then. Obviously you are not yet ready to join a free open
> source project driven by community. ;)

Can you explain to me exactly how you came to this conclusion?  You
think java doesn't have a community?

Henry