[Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 is branched

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 10.04.2012 13:05, schrieb 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.

If you divide the development time span by the number of supported
widget sets, OSes, CPU architecture etc. the period from the start of
the project to 1.0 is pretty amazing :)