On 1/20/06, Bisma Jayadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not the advocacy that is needed but rather they need code for it > > to work. It says right in the article. > > I think we should stop the VB vs Pascal discussion now. It's useless since we > all here already know which is the winner. Even Alex himself had already knew > about this, no need to convince him more.
Actually (at least with what I wrote above), there is a lesson for all of us (regardless of the language), of how not to do things :) > So, let's back to the main topic that had started this thread: The TurboCash > Delphi-to-FPC convertion project. Let's do some (real) actions! First, > somebody > has to convince the TurboCash guys over there that FPC/Lazarus is the best > alternative compiler and IDE to make TurboCash compiled and run natively on > Linux (and other platforms as well). But don't make Python look bad... good > Pascal guys don't like to say bad things about other programming languages. > Just > list the advantages of FPC/Lazarus over Python, regarding to this project. > > Second, some other person has to do some PR things on this issue. This could > be > done on FreshMeat or NewsForge or any open-source news media that had > published > this issue before. Convince other people that FPC/Lazarus can do the work, > even > it's the best alternative. Well if you will publish it on more then one place it will also be good (slashdot, newsforge etc). > > The last and the most important is... make a developer team who will do the > convertion work. There are LOTS of things need to be done since TurboCash is > very Delphi and win32 specific application. There is an FPC unit (I don't remember it name for now) that allow you to store "Windows Registry" like access to a XML. It is possible to use it for any registry access. For downloading, the lNet can be used (there might be a need for HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 and SSL implementation tough). > > So... who will start this? :) On my todo list, there is a native DOM, HTML4.1 and CSS1,2,3 parser to go with it. But it will be done only when I'll finish my current project (at least the basics). > > Regards, > > -Bee- > > has Bee.ography at > http://beeography.blogsome.com Ido _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
