2010/12/19 Brian Prentice <[email protected]>: > Vincent, > > That is a ridiculous statement and is one of the main reasons why this > project is such a miserable failure. All formal releases should be stable. > What is needed is a comprehensive test suit that covers all features of > Lazarus. This test software should be used for regression testing and run on > all platforms whenever new features are added. Also new tests should be added > to the suit to test these new features. If this is done all that is required > is to obtain a clean run of this test suit on all platforms before each > formal release. As a bonus the test suit should be included with each > release to provide clear examples of how to use Lazarus. > > The other main reason why this project is going nowhere is because the stated > goal to write once and compile everywhere is completely incompatible with the > desire to follow the native interface and design guidelines of each operating > system that is supported. > > The project is further badly hindered by the stubborn refusal of the > designers to implement Layout Managers. > >
To be honest, I think this email didn't help the project either. As far as you are concerned you may consider this project a failure indeed. Vincent -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
