On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Vincent Snijders wrote:
Bisma Jayadi 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.
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.
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.
Thanks for this insight.
I believe indeed that FPC/Lazarus is a superior technological solution, being
a compiled language and having a good IDE.
Porting Delphi code to FPC/Lazarus is easier than porting it to Python.
OTOH, Python might have its strong points too (I am not sure how true these
are). Maybe there are much more 'components' available for Python.
I also think there are more Python developers on linux, than FPC/Lazarus
developers. This is an important factor, if you want the 'community' do a
large part of the port.
They cannot help much.
You must understand the Delphi paradigma to do this.
Moreover you need Delphi to be able to see/edit the form files.
All queries are in the form files. If they are in binary format:
bye-bye.
Try converting a VB app to Delphi. Not easy unless you actually have VB.
So this restricts your available helpers pretty much to the people who
own and know delphi. (for porting, I mean. Not talking about extensions)
Someone should point this out to them. (no time to start looking up
things)
Michael.
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