[fpc-other] OT: How to make Lazarus/FPC more popular

[Mattias Gärtner]

Zitat von Travis Siegel <tsiegel at softcon.com>:

>
> On May 9, 2010, at 3:49 PM, ik wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've had some interesting conversation with few people on how to  
>> help Lazarus (and FPC) to be more popular in the industry and on  
>> FOSS projects.
>
> One thing you can do to make it more popular is to make it install  
> properly w/o having to fight with the installer, and having to  
> download, compile, reinstall, then finally give up because it just  
> plain didn't work.

What packages did you install?
What problem did you have?


> I've tried twice to get this ide to work on osx, and gave it up  
> twice as a bad deal.  I generally now just delete emails regarding  
> this product, because for me, it's simply a waste of time.
> Fix the distribution so that it installs cleanly on osx, and folks  
> (at least those using osx) might actually try the thing.


Mattias