On 24/11/2007, Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My guess. Nobody knows, not even Codegear. > They've become more and more dependent on marketing rather than on sound > technical strategies.
Yeah, I'm so glad our company decided to move over to Free Pascal. CodeGear looks like it is going nowhere slowly. Maybe Delphi will have the same fate as Kylix had. Borland silently moving it to the Historic Products section on their website. Did anybody actually check if they haven't done that already? :-) <off-topic> Borland should have pushed CLX and Kylix much harder than trying to play the catch-up game with Microsoft and trying to compete in the .NET world. Obviously Visual Studio will always support .NET better than any other product! </off-topic> > If we scratch our heads better than them, and it appears to me that the > process has already begun, we may end up with a better solution before > they've made up their mind. Now see, this is exactly where I foresee a problem! We find a solution before CodeGear does and then CodeGear does something totally different. Where does Lazarus then stand with Delphi compatibility??? <ranting begins> I think we should bin the whole idea of trying to be compatible and let the LCL implement it's own features. Trying to be compatible is just holding Lazarus back! Take the Lazarus IDE for example. It's goal isn't to be Delphi IDE compatible and because of that we can be creative and inventive, and look at what a awesome IDE we have! LCL on the other hand has improved by leaps and bounds over the last few years, but will always stand in the shadow of the VCL. My 2c worth. <ranting ends> Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
