[Lazarus] Release 1.0, part 2

[Vincent Snijders]

Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
> 2009/11/29 Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl>:
>> The serious users will consider the current restrained version policy as
>> more serious and see through a cheap spin.
> 
> That would be my view as well. Unfortunately we are then in the
> minority. Version numbers on Windows etc. and been in popularity for
> some time. No v1 release = rubbish software. Unfortunately that's what
> they consider fact.
> 
> FPC & Lazarus choose there market by trying to be Delphi compatible -
> so indirectly they are targeting Windows developers. Be that Windows
> developers that want to move to new platforms or Windows developers
> that want to move away for Delphi. Either way, it's Windows developers
> and the majority of them look at version numbers. Sad, but true.
> 
> I would simply like Lazarus to play the PR game a bit - we have much
> to benefit from that, and much to offer too. So why keep Lazarus a
> secret or for the select few. Maximize your audience (quoted from PR
> people I know).
> 

As Florian noted, Lazarus needs developers more than users. There are 
more gtk2 issues than win32 issues, so we need to focus our martekting 
(if any) more to the potential gtk2 developers (on linux) than on the 
potential win32 developers.

Vincent