Re: Howdy! Just a note to say I'm here
David Creelman wrote:
Hi Tony,
Interesting to see a fellow pascal/delphi/lazarus dude showing up on
another one of the mailing lists that I lurk on.
I thought Mattias had done a Debian package already ? Maybe you could
just get hold of his package and work with that..
I think he has one, or was talking about it, but I don't think he's
submitted it for general distribution?
Are you thinking of becoming a Debian developer ?
Sort of...
Are you thinking of trying to get Lazarus put into Debian ?
Not my goal, but not opposed to that ;-) I really just want to get
CheckBook tracker relased into the Debian libraries.
I've been
having similar thoughts myself. Since Lazarus is relatively large and
complex, maybe there's some way that we could work at both being the
maintainers of lazarus. I've heard of that happening with some of the
other larger packages in Debian. Would this seem okay to you ? Would
this be okay from other developers perspectives ?
I don't really have the time to try to maintain Laz as well, I'm having
enough trouble getting all the bugs squished in CBT to release the 1.0
ver. I have big plans for 2.0 now that Lazarus has a menu editor and a
clean IDE so I don't have to create all the widgets at runtime.
BTW, if you haven't already got one, you'll need to setup a GPG (Gnu
Privacy Guard) key for yourself and at the very least get it setup on
Been there, done that. :-D
Also, should probably contact the Debian fpc maintainer (I'll look him
up and have a chat with him). A browse through gnome-apt seems to
indicate that Debian's fpc is at 1.0.6 which means that lazarus will
work, but not wonderfully. fpc 1.0.7 would be better.
Actually yes, that needs done. There's a MAJOR issue in 1.0.6 that I
found a while back. It has an auto-resizing buffer for one function
that, eh, refuses to auto-resize, but never complains. Once you make an
app with Lazarus that's any decent size you'll see what I mean.
-Tony
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