Graeme, If Delphi is dead, then what's Lazarus?
The subtext is that with Delphi you can pull off the hat trick of a 2.3 million line app that sells for big bucks and where the client does not tolerate bugs or instabilities or excuses. Can anyone make that claim for Lazarus? Thanks. -Phil ----- "Graeme Geldenhuys" <[email protected]> wrote: > Phil Hess wrote: > > that should make merging a bit easier. But I have to say that Roman > > was quite dismayed to learn that ports of many other packages that > he > > uses were done as one-way ports to Lazarus, leaving Delphi > > compatibility behind. > > To be fair, Delphi itself was left behind for a few years and started > looking like it was heading the way of Kylix. Same applies to many > component suites. So in that case why bother with the extra effort to > keep compatibility with a dead product. > > Now speaking as somebody that has ported a fare share of components > and > complete projects to other GUI toolkits. Most of the time changes > will > never be back-ported to the original project. Plus, it's hard enough > already to port a component to another GUI toolkit, and then you > expect > to obfuscate the code even further with IFDEFs just to keep it alive > for > two compilers and various GUI toolkits - that's crazy. And double > work! > > Take TSynEdit for example. The code has changed such a lot from the > original, I don't think anybody will be able to backport Lazarus's > synedit to the original code. So why not simply clean up the Lazarus > code and remove all those damn IFDEFs so the code is actually > readable. > > All I do is try and notify the original author to let them know their > component or project lives on in another project and keep the credits > or > copyright notice in the units. > > > > Regards, > - Graeme - > > -- > fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal > http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
