On 27 March 2012 16:30, Martin <lazarus@*****> wrote: > > FPGui is developed as a separate project. It can be used in Lazarus via the > FPGui-Widgetset. This requires the user to install and/or update FPGui > (sources) and set up Lazarus to use them. > CustomDrawn is developed as part of Lazarus and works out of the box.
Thanks Martin. There are many ways Felipe could have done a comparison in a more friendly and neutral manner - which I and others would have been perfectly fine with. But what really got on my nerves is that every time he reverted my (neutral and fair) changes, he would at the same time add even more FUD. So things progressively sounded worse and worse! Damn childish! I just quoted one paragraph, but there were many such paragraphs and many more examples. - lcl-fpgui unmaintained and abandoned: I and others occasionally send patches. Progress is slow, but improvements are implement gradually (time permitting). That is different to unmaintained or abandoned software. - LCL-CustomDrawn is used in commercial / business environments. Yeah right, the state it is in now, no business would touch it with a 10 foot pole. It's Alpha state Felipe! Yes Felipe, you are the proud daddy of your creation, but please don't over inflate its current state and abilities. Not even all features or controls or platforms are implemented yet. - False advertising with the faked image - bloating the non-existent features. - Revision control suddenly being a major obstacle in using a LCL widgetset. Since when has that stopped any developer or company from using a project, tool, framework etc. - Majorly inflating what is necessary to support new platforms. My description was perfectly accurate - yes Felipe, I also know the LCL widgetset code and definitely also know what is required for fpGUI and LCL-fpGUI to support new platforms. - Looking at the revision history of lcl/interface/fpgui it is definitely not clear-cut that Felipe was the major contributor either. Maybe if you only judge my amount of commits (excluding patches applied by him from other developers), but not by amount of actual code changes. Yes Felipe, Git (the oh so difficult revision control system) can report on code change statistics too, not just simple commit log history. - Comparing backend API's, suddenly only fpGUI is not possible to accommodate the LCL API, but my miracles Qt, GTK1, GTK2, Carbon and Cocoa are. Wow. - fpGUI can't do anti-aliased text. What rubbish, it had that ability since years - He says he is only comparing LCL-fpGUI, not fpGUI itself. Yet every topic in the table specifically compared 'fpGUI' (not LCL-fpGUI) to 'LCL-CustomDrawn'. ... just to name a few (but still not all). As long as he continues his childish behaviour, I'll treat him like a child. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
