I had quite a read of the Lazarus site and FAQ's and there were lots on complaints about the speed of the compiler and linker on Windows....
The other issue was the enormous sizes of executables, although there are standard ways to strip them. There is a lot of calls there for a better compiler and linker.... The strong points of Lazarus were: -the general comments on the compatability with standard VCL Delphi were good. -Windows Mac OSX Linux. Real native binaries on each platform... It seems to me that if anyone in Devco/Borland was paying attention to a niche in the market that no-one does is a language that can be compiled to native code on all common platforms....even if you have to stay with a defined VCL tool set this is a wonderful idea. Why don't Devco/Borland talk to the Lazarus people, to make more portability between standard Delphi and Lazarus, with the aim of allowing Delphi to be plugged in as an alternative for Win32 and maybe linux as well. Those who want it free get the Lazarus limited version, those who want a mature full version can plug in Delphi instead....but they pay for it as they do now. The advantage of doing this for Devco/Borland is that in return for helping on the Windows side, the Lazarus community gives them conversion tools etc able to take real Delphi code into linux or Apple OSX......that sounds like a pretty cool scheme to me and a real selling point for Delphi. John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Scadden Sent: Thursday, 27 April 2006 4:16 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: RE: [DUG] More Delphi news... I am pretty nervous about the article too. I have eclipse - its got its nice bits but it doesn't let me write Object pascal. And I would have to say that D2006 is much nicer as an IDE. What I DONT do is spend money on all the little AML tools that Borland thinks we should be using. Why? because open source stuff does all I need in that direction. Where would Delphi be if Borland had invested in the tools and language instead of all this other crap. No.. must not get started on this..doesnt do any good and no one in Borland is listening. D2006 is actually getting me writing more stuff in Delphi but I am certainly watching what happens else where. The pain of it is that I have to use C or Fortran for MPI cluster stuff. Java is slowly getting there but still has some major performance hurdles that I cant accept. Where it will end, I dont know. I'm not moving to .net and still really looking for a substitute for C++ which is what I use Delphi for. One that compile with MPI binding on linux would be nice too. ---------------------------------------------------------- Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi __________ NOD32 1.1461 (20060329) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
