Having posted on that thread already, I'm not sure I understand your comment. I just checked to see if there were new posts there bashing Lazarus or FPC and I don't see it. One poster thinks Lazarus is a "disaster", but it's only one post. I don't really see anything wrong with the desire for the CrossFPC tool if it ever came to fruition. Dean only asked if it was possible to compile in FPC in Delphi. I prefer developing in Delphi over Lazarus on Windows myself and would love that feature. ModelMaker Code Explorer and other add-in tools I have for Delphi are really nice and I miss them if I do something in Lazarus.
As for the project, it's not very compelling for a Lazarus user to me but we'll see. The process, from the video, appears to start in Delphi where the coding is done, and then exported to a Lazarus format primarily just for recompilation on the target platform. Unless they did a lot more than I expect, it would be a far more limiting environment to work in than Lazarus. I stand by my comment that it's nice, worthy of support, and would probably be a good choice for a simple project that needed to be cross platform. But for anything complex you need a tool that you can create your own components in. I'll look at it, and if it's cheap perhaps even buy it to reward the effort. I can see using it for some simple utility apps and the like. But if you want reporting, charting, ability to descend and customize your own components, you need Lazarus. This won't change that unless they've actually recreated CLX or something (possible, but doubtful and the video doesn't show enough to tell). -Ron On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Bee wrote: > Hi, > > Someone had made an interesting project. You may see the screencast > here: > > https://forums.codegear.com/thread.jspa?threadID=14612&tstart=0 > > Nice work! It's good for both sides, Delphi and Lazarus. But, I'm > personally not interested since it would double my work, one with it, > another with Lazarus. Lazarus alone is more than enough to me, . What > I don't understand is the responses to this project in Delphi forum, > as you may read here: > > https://forums.codegear.com/thread.jspa?threadID=14612&tstart=0 > > Everyone seemed to be surprise and happy. As you already knew, Delphi > people are quite offensive to FPC/Lazarus with many arguments which > are mostly wrong and non-sense. But, if there's a project that > *indirectly* uses FPC/Lazarus through Delphi, as this one and > CrossFPC, they could accept it. Can someone explain this phenomena? :D > > -- > -Bee- > > has Bee.ography at: > http://beeography.wordpress.com > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org > http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
