-----Original Message----- Behalf Of Nicholas Sherlock Subject: [DUG]: Kylix? fibre optic link (Yay!!), but it has to run in Linux. Has anyone here ever looked at Kylix? How easy is it for us to convert our projects to Kylix
Leigh Wanstead wrote:
Hi Nicholas,
I think you will be fine if you just develop internet game server. There are limited third party visual control on Kylix. But you got Indy for Kylix for free. I think that will meet your requirement. I don't know about ICS.
Yup, there is ICS for kylix - I think just 1 or 2 units and then just build the ICS source as usual.
From the little I've done, kylix looks promising : worth investigation, say. You can certainly bang out hello-world web apps about as easily as Delphi. Just as an example of what you could expect, I ran into difficulty porting a web app with a 3rd Party component which depended on the 'Graphics' unit. The Apache user doesn't get permission to do any X-Windows stuff - at all - so the app would crash with a nasty error about not being able to load some .so (~ .dll). Presumably if I'd removed that component it'd all have been okay. (After years with Windows 'you wanna do that? Go right ahead' attitude, Linux permissions are pretty darn brutal ;) I left it at that, but yeah, I got my feet wet enough that I'd consider it a contender.
Cheers, Kurt.
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