Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 27 July 2012 14:05, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<[email protected]> wrote:
Strongly agreed. The ONLY case in which these might be applicable is when
The reasoning for recommending Kylix Help to Lazarus users was simple.
Only in the last year or so did the Lazarus LCL actually start getting
help. Not to mention that Lazarus didn't even have a offline help
system to compete with anything out there. I still feel to this day,
the Kylix Help is still a lot more complete, detailed and useful, with
working example code too.
It's also copyright, and you were very quick to point out the
questionable status of somebody's contribution earlier in the day.
However I agree that Lazarus and FPC help still has some way to go.
As for the x86 Linux only comment.... Well, tough sh*t to the Windows
and Mac users. I paid for Kylix Enterprise, so why the hell may I not
reuse what I paid a fortune for! In any case, LCL is supposed to be a
VCL clone (just like CLX), so the Delphi/Kylix help should be very
appropriate to LCL - if not, then the Lazarus project didn't do a very
good job cloning Delphi VCL.
You miss my point. The proprietary viewer is NBG on Linux running on
ARM, MIPS, PPC, SPARC and so on. And it's NBG for Solaris and BSD on any
CPU. Not to mention Windows, OS X, or minority operating systems such as
OS/2.
So while I agree wholeheartedly that you (or anybody else who's paid for
Kylix, and arguably anybody who's been given a legitimate free copy)
should be able to use the help files even as an aid to migrating to
another development environment, I don't think it's appropriate for them
to be recommended for use in other contexts.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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