> > Maybe Lazarus can copy some stuff from that project? > > There are hundreds of other open source IDEs, we are all > already aware of that. > > If you have some specific need Lazarus does not attend, or > something that it could attend better, and Ganbas does it, > then we can talk about this specific feature. And even then, > consulting how several other projects solve the problem would > be better then looking at only one other project.
The page I found it mentioned was one that was speaking of Visual Development on Linux (compared to VB on Windows) and didn't mention Lazarus at all (only some replies to that topic mentioned it, but they forgot to post a URL). From the image they had there about Gambas it looked more appealing than Lazarus (for example when you launch Lazarus [if you don't tell it to open something], is there option to autostart with the File/New dialog? [that should be the default option and have checkbox to not show that at start again]). What I mean is that Pascal is almost as easy as Basic to use (apart from VB's With and Case which are better in my opinion, or ForEach which is missing), and isn't case-sensitive as C/C++/Java/C#/etc. and is natural-language friendly (not have to learn some strange symbols and how to put them together to author a program as in some well-known scripting languages), so it's either that Lazarus is missing some IDE touches to make it more appealing to newcomers, or that it needs more/better PR (e.g. try to post nice screenshots of it to such net discussions that newbies [esp. interested in university students] may come across while searching for what IDE to use) _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0651-0, 27/11/2006 Tested on: 1/12/2006 3:12:43 ?? avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
