[Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

[Tommi Prami]

And hey...

I don't mean that I won't appreciate the work done!!! All the fixes and 
work has been very valuable...

Just that if WinCE would be very robust on Lazarus (Like really at 
productionuse level) it would need quite an push, and what I looked at 
it, it is really out of my league, no matter how much I would like to 
help on this...

In general (not mentioned as insult ;) ) I think Lazarus should reduce 
the "supported" Widgetsets etc. If something is not top notch quality it 
should be dropped or marked as some kind of an official hobby projet or 
something like that. Just because Lazarus is an Huge system along with 
the FPC.  So us that are not inside the project and hacking it in and 
out could see more clearly where to go with it. To choose right 
widgetset...

And I am in hurry so text is might not be as Diplomatic as I would like 
it to be, so again it is not meant to be insult just and oppinnion (And 
not very well formed one). Just to write out so I don't forget. I can 
explain in detail later if needed ;)

-Tee-

On 31.8.2012 10:31, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Tommi Prami <groups.tprami at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Seems that there is not much support/users of WinCE-Lazarus so I was just
>> pondering what are the options on here...
> Why do you think that? LCL-WinCE was always one of the top downloads
> of Lazarus with 10.000+ downloads per release.
>
> And in Lazarus 1.0 it is keeping up the same proportion. It has 10% of
> the total Windows downloads:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Windows%2032%20bits/Lazarus%201.0/
>
> Development indeed is slow, but the interface is essentially finished,
> so there is not much to do. Almost everything works.
>
> And besides that the operating system is no longer utilized in
> smartphones, so I lost my personal interrest on it and moved to
> Android development instead (LCL-CustomDrawn-Android). I have to
> invest in platforms which are actively used in my field...
>
> But I still fix major bugs that appear for LCL-WinCE, despite all that.
>