On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:01:56 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > > > > The LCL is much more than a widget set. It is the base building > > > > block of a RAD system. And also it quite Delphi VCL compatible in > > > > spirit (to allow easy porting). > > > > > > > > Moreover wxWindows is relatively recent. It wasn't around in a > > > > stable form when Lazarus was started. > > > > > > Strange. As far as I know, it was around and used way before Lazarus > > > appeared. It was already around at least in 1995, even before the > > > first release of FPC... > > > > In a usuable state to build Lazarus on top of I mean? The first time I > > heard about it was 1997 I think, and then it was advocated as a small > > clean way to make portable apps, no complete framework. > > As far as I remember it, it would have been enough to support Lazarus. > Maybe not the complete widget set, but definitely most of it. AFAIK the main reason, why the gtk interface for the LCL was started, was simply, that the devels had experience with gtk, but no one had experience with wxWindows. Any volunteers to start the wxWindows interface for the LCL are welcome. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
