In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: > Once upon a time there was a small kingdom ruled by a kind king. The > king had two daughters and more children were planned to come. But the > king had already problems to find approbiate rooms for his second child.
King=Borland children=Delphi and Kylix > So he ordered his mages to reconstruct the castle in a way that the > ever-growing family can easily be accommodated. reconstruction=CLX? (or Firemonkey?) > The mages immediately began with their work and reshaped the castle with > their spells. But as the work on the castle neared its completion a > terrible accident happend to the second princess when she played between > the working mages. > She was no longer able to walk or even sit upright > without support. End of support of Kylix. >The mages tried their best to heal her, but in the end they needed to > finish the castle so that the royal family could have their home back > before the winter strikes. But even after the castle had been finished > they didn't have enough time for the disabled princess as the family had > already grown during the mages' work and required their full attention. > And so the days and months passed by in which the second daughter of the > king was confined to her room and could not join in the family's > activities. Then one day a young mage came along and joined the mages of > the castle. He helped them with maintaining the magically enhanced > castle, but while searching for places to fix and further extend he > stumpled upon the room of the isolated princess. Mage is Lazarus/freepascal, helping old Kylixers to migrate, and remove their codebase from being "iced"/isolated. > spent the evenings after his normal work at the castle in the library and > looked through the books about healing magic. Sometimes he then went to > the princess' chamber and applied his newly learned knowledge. After some > weeks his work finally paid off and the girl was able to feel and move her > legs again. A Kylix codebase compiles/starts to work with FPC/Lazarus > Although she needed to move slowly and with the help of crutches Crutches=libc unit obviously _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
