Felipe, As a fellow developer, I share you aches and pains. Debates get ugly and I understand first-hand how thankless it can sometimes feel. I hope you always find the strength to push onward on such a noble persuit.
>From me at least, thank you for your efforts. It's because of people like you that I use and code and contribute to Lazarus today. Thankfully, Juan Melendez On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 19:42 +0300, ik wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho > <felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/4/21 ik <ido...@gmail.com>: > > I was talking about this: > http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12591 > > With many implications on IRC of it. > > > Very simple to solve this: Just add the gtk 2.8 code around > IFDEFs. I > think this is already done for other features > > They added support for 2.8 because of this, but it took me a lot of > effort to be listen to. > > > > Absolutely unecessary to have hurt fealings and personal > disputes > about something so simple. > > The first time I added support for Bidi in Lazarus, it taken me a long > time to understand how things works. And except for Windows that Zaher > already added, I added for almost every other supported widget the > bidi support. > When I had time to continue working on this, I discovered that old > things I made did not work, so I started research about the issues. > The thing is that I found out about it after almost 4 weekends that I > worked on this, and the reaction was something like the joking of > Vincent: "it's your problem". > > I do a lot of work regarding spreading Lazarus to people, and writing > posts in my native language at my blog about pascal and lazarus, and > then I find myself not only in need to "fight" people in the community > that I try to show Lazarus to, but also from inside Lazarus project, > and that was too much for me. > > The first time I tried to contribute to Lazarus, was when it only had > GTK 1.2 support (no win32 support at all). When I started the attempt > to prompt GTK 2x to Lazarus core developers, I was given an answer > that made me leave the project completely and it took me few years to > return to test it out (then it was already started a job in working > with more then one widget). > > I do not like wasting my time, I really love object pascal, and I do > think that FPC is a great compiler, and Lazarus have a feature, but > there is still a long road to go until it could replace Delphi, but > when no one is willing to hear you out, and most of the time ignore > your contributions have it's toll. It makes me (at least) to invest a > lot less in this projects. > > > > > -- > > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho > > > > Ido > > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org > http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus