On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:33 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FPC's FCL and Lazarus' LCL is very much similar and compatible with Delphi's > > (as product) VCL. Having single codebase for different platforms and OSes is > > not that hard, though in some special cases it can't be 100% single codebase > > but it can be solved easily using IFDEFs. > > With sufficient abstraction, it's even possible without IFDEFs. My > applications don't run on 16 platfroms, but it does run or 4, and > there isn't single IFDEF in my code. > > > Some people (mostly people in this list) have been using Delphi (as > > language) on more than 16 platforms (including mobile devices), yet they are > > (Codegear/Embarcadero fan boys) still dreaming about it. My very deep > > condolence goes to them. :) > > I can't agree more! ;-) > I've mentioned it a few times in the CodeGear newsgroup as well. If > they can use a different compiler and IDE to target .NET/Mono, why > can't they do the same for cross-platform support. Simply use Lazarus > IDE and Free Pascal Compiler - supply many bug fixes and ship that! > > They keep going on about the .NET dependency justification in the IDE, > saying they didn't want to reinvent the wheel! What kind of nonsense is that ? What does .NET dependency in the IDE have to do with reinventing the wheel ? Does .NET come with a complete code refactoring assembly, written in C# by Microsoft or what ? Assuming they wrote the IDE (and thus code refactoring) themselves, what is the problem to compile it as native code and get rid of .NET dependencies in the IDE ? Really... Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
