On 2013-12-27 21:12, Marco van de Voort wrote: > Fact is that the extensions of FPC are used much less than the Delphi > compatibility aspect.
And would you mind sharing how you came to that conclusion? Can you share the data on that research? >From my personal experience of using FPC since 2004-2005, there is NO need to have support for two compilers (Delphi & FPC) in a single project. Free Pascal is more than capable enough to stand on its own feet. Speaking as someone that has personally ported large Delphi and Kylix project not only to Free Pascal and Lazarus's LCL, but also to fpGUI - a completely VCL incompatible UI toolkit. I have done this for multiple projects, frameworks and GUI widgets. My conclusion after all this... A conversion is NOT THAT HARD, and it's a great time to review old code too. So it has a triple positive. Moving to a real cross-platform compiler, a real cross-platform toolkit (be that LCL or fpGUI) and being able to review and improve old code and designs (your second attempt and software is ALWAYS better that your first). Many projects have moved away from Delphi in the last few years - mostly to other languages like C# or Java. That requires a total rewrite - which is infinitely more work than moving to Free Pascal. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus