Hello,
No one uses this librairies ? Concretely (economically), this means that I will have to lose a day or two to test the various approaches more or less recent and updated...after losing 2 days to install gdb to use it with Lazarus.
By losing a very unproductive time in a professional environment, I wonder
- am I sure that Lazarus is economically accounting for development in enterprise whose profession is the programming for Desktop multi OS projects ?
- is it really usable - I mean professional used - with MacOS X.12
How can we accept losing so much time at each development ?
I often criticize Delphi but there, even offering to pay to have additional components (because more profitable), I can not find the least correspondent or get the information sought.
I laugh at the gratuitousness ... but I am looking for services. It's even my dispute with Delphi. We can not wait 6 months to fix a bug that paralyzes the progress of our projects.
I ask for it publicly since I tried in vain by private mail to contact 2 different members of the team Lazarus: Would it not be possible, as is the case on other development platforms, to set up a contractual service to provide assistance and support for business development.
If it is not, it is enough to say it. More than a year ago, a private response was "We are thinking about it. A meeting is planned". One year is very long in a development cycle.
We are working on 3 desktop (Windows, Linux and Mac OS, 32 and
64 bits). Our main development tool is Qt and it will remain so. But tactically, we need a second second platform. Lazarus can be. But recently, the possibility Delphi Linux Desktop has appeared.
But in both cases, the problem is not the potential but
the critical time management of our developments : this target time is a determining factor of cost. Mastering management means controlling time.
In short, we do not know if Lazarus (and his team) can meet our expectations. We know the technical capabilities of Lazarus fpc, its strengths and weaknesses. But it is the possibility of support to companies therefore with contractual obligations, with times of intervention, definite correction times of which we fail to speak.
Just answer "we are not interested", "we can not afford it", "it costs too much for us" ... or "we can provide you with an answer on that date" ...
No aggressiveness in my remarks. Style can be a little direct because of a limited but assumed mastery of English.
Maybe there are third-party companies that offer such a contract to secure the use of such a tool. That exists for Qt and I contacted 2 for Delphi. The only problem(not for Qt) is their ability to intervene on bugs .
Looking forward to reading you,
Regards. Gilles