On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:31:31 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Geoffray wrote: > > > Hi the list... > > > > You probably don't know me but I'm for years a Lazarus fan. > > > > I have to prepare a conference for February 2010 in my LUG. The > > main theme is to give a good idea of what are Lazarus and Free > > Pascal with technical demonstration. This is the easy part... The > > public will be mainly Delphi users (including companies) that want > > to move from Delphi to Free Pascal. So I need help with details > > about which problems they can meet, the solutions, supported > > feature, and not (yet) supported ones... > > Having ported/developed some applications, the main problems when > porting are IMHO: > > a) They should not expect to find the same components in Lazarus as > in Delphi. (This concerns mostly DB components, web components. GUI > is mostly covered) > > b) Third-party components are usually not usable. > (unless that company supports FPC, which is unlikely) > > c) Cross-platform development means: > - No Windows API. (e.g. the registry). > - SizeOf(integer)<>SizeOf(Pointer)! > - No assembler > > And under no circumstances promote '1 source for both Delphi/Lazarus' > because that is a recipe for problems :( Here are some more details: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation#Coming_from_Delphi Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
