On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Michael Van Canneyt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> 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 ? > > I didn't get into it much, but many developers are upset about the > .NET dependency in the IDE in last few Delphi releases. Now they can't > run the Delphi IDE via WINE, which apparently many of them did for > Delphi 7 etc... > > CodeGear staff mentioned reusing refactoring features of the .NET > framework in the IDE and some other stuff for the editor etc... I don't believe this argument for a second. 1. .NET has no knowledge of Pascal, so how can it be used to refactor pascal ? 2. The IDE - prior to .NET - already had extensive codetools, I would be surprised to learn that they couldn't implement the 2 or 3 things that "required" .NET using their own codetools... Reversing this argument would mean that they admit that their own codetools are a lot of junk ? Either way, the .NET dependency IS a big hindrance for a lot of their clients, and obviously they are (again) not listening. But what else is new ? Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
