[Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 is branched

[Kostas Michalopoulos]

On 4/4/2012 6:33 πμ, waldo kitty wrote:
> agreed... plus "we" do not know how many years the v1.0 of delphi was in
> development... we might guess based on TP/BP stuffs but "we" still do
> not know for sure... it can easily be for more years than FP/Laz has
> been in development ;)

Not really, this quote from a "history" article from Borland's Museum:

---
"Delphi" started out as a beta codename for a closely guarded skunkworks 
project at Borland: a next-generation visual development environment for 
Windows based on Borland's Object Pascal programming language. The 
codename hatched in mid 1993, after the development team had been 
through about 6 months of deep research, proof-of-concept exercises, and 
market analysis.
---

So Delphi was in development since late 1992.  Since the first release 
was in 1995, we can infer that Delphi was at most three years in 
development before the first 1.0 release.  Lazarus started in 1999 (and 
according to the history page in the wiki, it is based on an older 1998 
project which itself is based on an even older project, although i'm not 
sure what exactly "based" here means) so it is over a decade in 
development and still no 1.0.

So if you think about it, if Borland worked on Delphi more than Lazarus, 
then they'd need to work on it before even Windows 1.0 was released :-P.

Kostas "Bad Sector" Michalopoulos