On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Ron Grove <ron.gr...@me.com> wrote: > I don't see anything in the video that prevented you from making edits > in Lazarus. He copies files back and forth for some reason, not sure > what's up with that. I don't have to do that because VMWare Fusion > allows for pretty seamless file sharing.
From what I could see in the video, he had to export the Delphi project to a Lazarus project - which ended up in a separate directory. I'm not sure if Delphi and Lazarus can share the same wxWidget based project (the point I was trying to make). Without actually trying it myself, I have no real clue what is possible and what isn't. > As for CodeGear benefitting from embracing FPC, I haven't bought the > argument. FPC and Lazarus would make a Windows only Delphi completely As far as I see it, CodeGear is competing in the Developement Environment market. To me, that is the IDE and VCL framework - not so much the compiler. So by them embracing the Free Pascal compiler, they already get a x-platform compiler (more than just Windows+Linux kylix compiler). Now they simply need to tune the compiler for new language features (D2009 language features etc) and build there VCL to be truely x-platform like LCL does. It's a three step process (to simplify things a lot. 1) Use the FPC compiler and make the existing Delphi IDE work with it. So CodeGear still gives Delphi developers all the IDE benefits and plugins like ModelMaker support, UML designing etc which Lazarus IDE doesn't have. 2) Now they can start making VCL x-platform - similar to what LCL does. 3) Release a new x-platform IDE based on the new x-platform VCL. But yeah, this is all a pipe dream. CodeGear is fighting to stay alive in a very competitive market - especially seeing that they limiting themselves to targeting only the Windows market and trying to compete with Microsoft and their tools. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
