[Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

[Marc Santhoff]

Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 16:01 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
> William Oliveira Ferreira schrieb:
> > Well, i think all pascal developers should do something about it and, 
> > all the fpc/lazarus team is doing a wonderfull work!
> 
> +-1
> 
> Yes, much time is spent on the *code*, on mass instead of quality.
> No, the *documentation* is in an horrible state.

>From my view this is not absolutely true. There in fact is a lot of
documentation, but it's often a problem to find it. Most things are
already available in the wiki or the generated docs.

> Every possible user will need some documentation, before he starts to 
> write code. As he doesn't find such documentation, he'll never start 
> using Lazarus.

If asked I'd suggest:

There could be some overview pages (made manually or by scripting)
handling special information requests. One, imho the first of those
pages would be an information page for beginners.

Like often seen on development project pages, one of the most visible
things is an index page having a small selction of the most searched
pages, titles may be "getting started", "help in development", and so
on.

Lazarus has no beginners page at all (checked quickly this moment, not
speaking about fpc).

-- 
Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at web.de>