On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Marco van de Voort <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:43:16PM +0000, Graeme Geldenhuys 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? > > Just look on e.g. the forums. All people are asking about Delphi packages.
My impression is that most people asking Delphi stuff are up to either: - old Delphi versions (D7); - people really new to Delphi and programming in general. >> >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 > > Yes, but we all know you are a special case :-) > > Point is if you make conversion harder PEOPLE WILL NOT EVEN TRY! I tend to agree with Graeme on this one. -Flávio -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
