> > What he meant is that supporting fpc/lazarus development > > is a quite more tangible task than trying to buy and support delphi. > > No, he said "Why don't they switch to and support FPC/Lazarus instead of > doing that?". Tha is a large dig at Delphi.
Correct. > Until FPD is completely > compatible with Delphi 5 onwards (completely) including full VCL, it's > useless to me under Windows... There are more people than you :_) For me (and I mean that with my fulltime Delphi programmer hat on), full compability would be a bad thing. Compability is a beast that means for every time the gap gets ten times smaller (90% - 99% - 99.9% etc), the work to close that gap also get ten times as much, and the limitations get worse ( e.g. crossplatform libs turn into windows or Linux/x86-2.4.x-as-in-kylix emulations). At a certain point the work can be better invested in expanding the tool than in more compat. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
