Lazarus 1.0 release available for download

[TheWonderFromDownUnder]

I stopped programming 12 years ago and was one of the first people to use Delphi
In my library is Delphi Unleashed ,Mastering Delphi, Delphi How to, Delphi development fro Windows 95
(I Know That Was a long Time Age) Delphi Database Development and Delphi Developers Guide.
 
A few months ago decided to get another computer and download a free copy for Delphi

To download a free copy of Delphi is a rear as hens teeth what I Did find was Lazarus
when I first saw Lazarus I thought I was actually using Delphi all over again

IT IS A WORK OF ART AND THE CLOSET  SOFTWARE TO DELPHI I HAVE SEEN
WHAT A GREAT APPLICATION LAZARUS RULES SO DOES PASCAL
 CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU TO THE TEAM THAT DEVELOPED IT   

[kta87]

Thank you! I just loved this environment, three years before working in delphi. Now fully exploiting only Lazarus! Thank you so much!

[profane]

Happy maturity day, Cheetah!

[motaz]

My book Start programming using Object Pascal downloads has been increased after the release of Lazarus version 1.
It reaches 1400 downloads last month, while it was 990 downloads in Aug

http://www.code.sd/startprog/index.html

[TurboRascal]

@motaz: another great sign

[xyz]

First of all Thank you Lazarus team for the hard work.

Secondly I do have a small request:
Can someone repackage the RPMs and change the dependencies on FPC from FPC = 2.6.0 to FPC >= 2.6.0
Reason: Fedora 17 comes with FPC 2.6.0-2 and it constantly tries to update this package failing with lazarus as a dependent package that requires 2.6.0.

Thank you.

[mmiller]

I just got through creating a simple SQLite DB app with Lazarus as an exercise.  There were some hiccups here and there, but to my memory the number and kind were comparable to Delphi 1.0. (except for the help system, which needs some work [understandable])    Overall, especially considering the challenge of such an undertaking by volunteers, great job.  Very fun to use.

Well done Lazarus team.  I hope to show my appreciation by contributing  in some meaningful fashion in the near future.


  .\\iller

[codepunk]

Cliff here  , just noticed the team hit the 1.0 release.  I am happy to be one of the guys that got the project started along with Mike and Shane. However the real heros are all of the people that came and went plugging away at the project through all of these years.  Shouts out to everyone! 

[BigChimp]

Thanks a lot, Cliff! (And happy to see you here...)

[codepunk]

I see Mattias is still at it, that dude is a pascal coding machine! I know he has to have a little grey hair by now also

[mariuz]

Cliff here  , just noticed the team hit the 1.0 release.  I am happy to be one of the guys that got the project started along with Mike and Shane. However the real heros are all of the people that came and went plugging away at the project through all of these years.  Shouts out to everyone!

I agree with your words
Project rate for code contributions is insane and is growing 
http://www.ohloh.net/p/lazarus


And download rate is growing on sf.net
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/stats/timeline?dates=2003-09-03+to+2012-10-17
I don't know other sources for stats

Maybe popcon from debian
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=lazarus

[Nebula]

And download rate is growing on sf.net
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/stats/timeline?dates=2003-09-03+to+2012-10-17

That was an impressive spike in Jan 2012 - do we know what caused that?

[Martin_fr]

That was an impressive spike in Jan 2012 - do we know what caused that?

Release of 0.9.30.4

Which came after a very long time of no releases

[Nebula]

Thanks

(bit too busy to play with Laz at the moment, but keeping an eye of the forum)

[motaz]

I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 today. I found Lazarus version 0.9.30.4 in software center