[Lazarus] What's the hold-up with Lazarus v1.0?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

2009/11/28 Vincent Snijders <vsnijders at vodafonevast.nl>:
>
> Yes, Delphi has time based releases, Lazarus tries to make the release based
> on complete feature, without feeling a need to make 1.0, just because a
> couple of months (or years) have passed and a dead line is nearing.

It is years... We switched to FPC and Lazarus 5 years ago, when
Lazarus was v0.9.1x.  Five long years later, Lazarus is still in
v0.9.x! :-(

> As far as I am concerned, if all issues with target version 1.0 are fixed,
> we are ready. Most work is for the gtk2 people though.

Exactly my point! GTK2 wasn't initially a pre-v1 feature. We not 5
years ago when I started with Lazarus. Lazarus took so long to get to
v1 and GTK1 became so outdated that GTK2 was bumped up to pre-v1
target. So excluding GTK2, Lazarus has long already been ready for v1.
That's if you base it purely on features! Well, that's how I feel
about it, and I am pretty sure many other Lazarus users would agree.

I think delaying v1 more, will hurt Lazarus reputation even further.

-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


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