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

[Florian Klaempfl]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> 2009/11/29 Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org>:
>> Do you really think we should care about people looking at version
>> numbers? Wine took years to get 1.0 and people used it, one of the
>> greatest emulators (qemu) is still at 0.11 having a quality Borland had
>> selled as version "2007".
> 
> 
> And who are they targeting? Linux and Unix users which as I already
> mentioned, do not care much about version numbers. Lazarus targets
> Mac, Windows, Linux etc.... Most of those targets DO care about
> version numbers, even thought it might only be psychological.

Being honest, should an OSS project care about users looking at version
numbers? The most important thing for an OSS project are contributors,
no more, no less (don't tell me that a person/company selecting software
by version number will ever contribute to an OSS project ...). And for
contributors a serious and defined development modell is import and not
some marketing speech.

> 
> Any steps taken to reduce bad publicity is a good thing. Seeing
> comments like the ones I mentioned in my first post is what stops
> potential developers from trying Lazarus, even though the original
> poster of that comment didn't really give Lazarus a fair chance.

Do you really want such people using lazarus :)? They'll waste our time
with whinning, no more no less.

> Developers read those comments and take it as fact and simply stay
> away from Lazarus.
> 
> Clearly you know the benefits of version numbers, otherwise FPC would
> still have been at v0.x!

It took FPC also eight years to reach 1.0 and it was clearly feature
driven: TP compatibility as far as possible.

> 
> And as I mentioned, Lazarus has a sh*t load more features than the
> text based Free Pascal IDE, yet that IDE is at v1.x

I still do all fpc development with the textmode ide because due to the
tight debugger and compiler integration: it feels much faster and it's
usable on an ssh terminal :)