[Lazarus] tarballs

[Jaqui Greenlees]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 13:44, Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:
> Marco van de Voort schrieb:
>
>> The lack is people that do things, not people that tell core what to do.
>
> It's not so simple. Guess why it took me more than a year to implement
> usable docking - it's not a matter of implementation, but a matter of
> discussions what is *allowed* to change in a poor interface, and what
> additional LCL/Delphi incompatibilities already have been introduced and
> must be respected by all new code. It's almost impossible to replace an
> inappropriate implementation by a better model, because some existing code
> *could* be broken by such an change - unless such a suggestion comes from a
> core developer, who simply changes his existing code.
>

I wholeheartedly agree with the above -- a purely theoretical
backwards incompatibility
issue already prevented me from contributing to at least one Lazarus subsystem.

-- 
Alexander S. Klenin