[Lazarus] Release 1.0, part 2

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Florian Klaempfl schrieb:

>> I still stand to my argument that wrapping
>> existing components on each platform (instead of creating custom
>> written ones) is a disaster! 
> 
> As far as I understood, it's an axiom of the lazarus project to use the
> native widgetset ;)

...what implies that not all components will be available or work the 
same on all widgetsets :-(

While I agree that native look and feel is important for the acceptance 
of applications, I disagree that *everything* must work the same on 
every platform. A set of simple and commonly used components can be made 
available on all platforms and widgetsets, but everything else should 
not be considered as a release hindrance. He who wants easy 
cross-platform development has to be happy with the common denominator 
of the target platforms, or with a platform-independent solution like 
fpGUI (Java...). And he who wants best integration into every target 
platform will have to supply according specialization of his GUI and 
related code.

I'd not whine when e.g. skins and themes are not implemented (in the 
same way) for all platforms and components, which have no or different 
support for such things. But I'd whine when I had to respect the special 
requirements of *every* platform and component in my design and source 
code, even if I do not want to support really *all* available platforms 
and *every* possible eye candy.


Delphi "X" will come as a Windows hosted cross-platform development 
system, and I wonder what set of components and properties it will 
support. A Lazarus "X" version could provide the same just now, off the 
shelf, *and* with a native IDE on every platform. It would do no harm to 
remove some problematic features and components from an LCL "X", as long 
as there exists no compatibility pressure (vs. Delphi "X"). The IDE 
itself could become the proof of which components and features have to 
work, in order to qualify the according part of the LCL for "X". In a 
next step or branch all parts can be added to an LCL "X++", which are 
not fully supported on all platforms.

DoDi