Hi all,

The last thing is: should we merge FPC and Lazarus? If so, why? If not, what's the reason?

This is important, IMO. Most people know Lazarus is the "official" FPC IDE. Also because it would also effect on the whole website design. If they're separated, should we also reconstruct the FPC site? If they're merged, how we're gonna structure the content?

The last thing is: should we merge FPC and Lazarus? If so, why? If not, what's the reason?

I prefer that both are merged, but with separated content. This would make the website maintenance easier and focus.

Let's hear what others would say. :)

Seems it was discussed before already. Yes, at least FPC community forum and lazarus forums can be merged (before this already happened with the wiki and the bug tracker).

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

Seems it was discussed before already. Yes, at least FPC community forum and lazarus forums can be merged (before this already happened with the wiki and the bug tracker).

So, I may safely assume that the website of FPC and Lazarus will be merged on this work. Not?

No.

Only the forum, bugtracker and and wiki are the same.

The main sites remain separate.

Michael.

For now I agree. But later we can create products menu with: Free Pascal, Lazarus, MseIDE & MseGUI , FpGUI. After all some FPC developers are working on lazarus and some lazarus developers are working on fpc.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

You'll have to convince some of the FPC developers for this, I'm afraid :)

Michael.

For now I agree. But later we can create products menu with: Free Pascal, Lazarus, MseIDE & MseGUI , FpGUI. After all some FPC developers are working on lazarus and some lazarus developers are working on fpc.

Contradictly, I prefer both are merged for now. It'll be easier to create and maintain. FPC and Lazarus combination is very well-known as Delphi alternative. Only very few people, AFAIK, that really using FPC's text IDE. Separating FPC and Lazarus would make new comers confuse. Even if they're someday will be separated in the future, the main portal still should be merged. And I agree that someday we'll need to have a "products" menu to display derivatives work on FPC/ Lazarus.

The content of the Lazarus (main entry etc.) pages is unrestricted. We even can add a link to Delphi...

DoDi

I'd keep it FPC and Lazarus only. More choice only confuses, and the deep integration with the other two projects is also not there.

Marco van de Voort wrote

I'd keep it FPC and Lazarus only. More choice only confuses, and the deep integration with the other two projects is also not there.

I agree, only FPC and Lazarus that need to be merged. The other should have its own website, but we provide links to it on FPC/Lazarus portal, within the Project Gallery page.