[Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

[Marco van de Voort]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 01:21:37PM +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> I would also have preferred the LCL to be a VCL 'without the windows calls'
> 
> I think the VCL does a pretty good job of abstracting out the Windows API.
> You can program it pretty much without knowing anything about the windows API
> (some corner cases aside, such as keyboard key names).

For me not. The current level of windowisms doesn't disturb me, and makes
porting of Delphi code to Lazarus so much easier.


As far as the planning goes, I think people should stop trying to manage
version numbers, and just work.