On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Sasa Zeman wrote:
From: "Jonas Maebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Since I testing FPC and Lazarus, I'm intersting in using it.
However, FPC and Lazarus currently cannot be competition
to Delphi/Kylix. But the most important advantages are daily
updates and upgrades and we hope it
will become worthy competitor one day.
You forgot to add "for my environment and purpose" at the end of that
last sentence.
FPC and Lazarus are currently not sutable as a main tool RAD (at least on
Winodows). If you have Delphi (7) Studio licensed RAD and developing
commercial applications, you have seen real RAD tool in action:
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It is far from that however, that Delphi is bugfree product, but currently
regarding translation problems, disadvantage of Lazarus IDE and some
incomaptibility/bugs in both, these advantages are not enough to set FPC and
Lazarus as a main RAD, at least on Windows which is still the most used OS
for global puposes.
While I don't argue with your position, In defence of FPC/Lazarus:
Like with all open source projects, it is: You get what you pay for.
Everyone is free to invest some time in making FPC/Lazarus a good
alternative. With a core development team of at most 10 people,
doing this in their spare time, I guess you'll have to be patient...
Michael.
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