> > http://delphi.org/ > > > > Very nice attempts, but -IMO- they're just wasting their time. :p > > Why don't they switch to and support FPC/Lazarus instead of doing that? :p > > You're kidding me right? Maybe if you made that assertion about Kylix, but > not Delphi!! The Delphi.Net compiler alone, and the VCL (full VCL), and > defacto support for all (not just a subset) of Delphi features
However only the time to get anything building of that codebase is probably a horrible task. It is written to be operated by an horde of fulltime programmers + QA department. The whole idea that OSS programmers can take over this is IMHO nuts. Specially now the number of serious delphi devels are dwindling, and since they always had a no-nonsense mentality. See how many devels FPC has. That is the same magnitude you can get for Open Delphi. At best, and part-time. And these are battle hardened veterans for a decade and longer. A newly formed OSS team would take at least 1,2 years to even do a maintainance release, at besxt. See e.g. how long it took for Mozilla to become releaseworthy. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
