Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Rigel Rig wrote:
Delphi in 2011 will be on a Linux and Mac, and very rarely Delphi
programmer will go to Lazarus.
I very much agree! Lazarus v1.0 non-beta <wink> must be out before
Delphi has cross-platform support. The advantage of Lazarus over Delphi
will seriously diminish after that.
Regards,
- Graeme -
I think , it is not necessary to have so much fear because my
expectation is that Delphi will not be able to compile any Windows
application directly to Linux or Mac natively . Using Mono is not a
cross platform development and it is not a new service because it is
already possible to use it .
You may remember Kylix .
When I assumed that I would compile a Delphi program with Open Kylix ,
my biggest surprise was the error message about
< missing unit : Windows > .
Then , my suggestion : Do NOT worry on this subject .
Actually , the most severe problem of Lazarus is its dependence on
external libraries for user interface . A native widget set is the most
urgent problem to obtain stability . My idea is the necessity of
dropping GTK and Windows dependency and switching to a manageable ( by
the Lazarus developers team ) widget set such as fpGUI as default when
it is usable in all platforms . Another step may be : Take GTK and all
of its dependents and supply to these to users with new names to prevent
confusion with other installed GTK libraries , and pursue user interface
on this adopted and maintained ( by the Lazarus developers team ) GTK fork .
I am using 2008 May ( trunk ) FPC 2.3.1 and corresponding Lazarus on
Windows XP .
When I tried FPC 2.2.4 with its corresponding Lazarus , it gave me an
empty form without any component . Then I reverted to back . Later on ,
I read similar complaints in some messages by other users .
Thank you very much .
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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