Raistware wrote: > > Also there are a thing that shock me out completly: ¿why should Lazarus > mantain backward compatibility with Delphi? > First of all, Delphi is not suited to compile anyother platform outside > of windows.
I agree, it's a nice to have feature, but it makes Lazarus development very difficult (causing many limitations, regression bugs etc.) - which it should not do, for a project that calls itself "cross-platform". VCL is simply too tightly tied to Windows and the Win32 API, even Borland, CodeGear and Embarcadero are struggling with that issue. > specific issues. Be free to work with the most efficient way you can. > Break compatiblity whenever you need to create a better ide. Those compatibility goals will apparently not change in the Lazarus project. I have had many people tell me that. But all is not lost - there are two other projects that tackled that problem in a different manner: fpGUI Toolkit and MSEide&MSEgui. Those two took a fresh start, not hindered by Delphi compatibility or limitations. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
