Re: Fwd: What to do to get new users
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
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On Oct 19, 2024 at 4:26:51 PM, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal < [email protected]> wrote: > Which IMHO, means another (potentially drastic) downside. > > If it would be possible and would be done, you end up with 2 > incompatible products. That would mean you split the community into 2 > groups, each group smaller than the current. Effectively immediately > downsizing the amount of users (in each group). > Even if you gain 20% new users (and I find that more than optimistic, I > would guess more like 5% tops, if we are lucky), and then split unevenly > 60/40 => the larger of the 2 new communities will be at 70% of the > current size. > this is a very good point. The splitting of the RTL is a deal breaker too. Unless it was possible to turn it on and off with a compiler directive and make very minimal code changes it’s off the table. Regards, Ryan Joseph _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [email protected] https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal