On 2015-06-18 21:32, Bo Berglund wrote: > for the dongle component after stripping out the component related > stuff, then I could have a minimalistic project to figure out...
That is exactly what we did back in 2006/7 when we evaluated the possibility of moving our Delphi code to FPC. We noted all the component requirements from our various projects. Then created many small tests to see what would be needed, and what works and what doesn't. In the end this process worked out very well for us. It was also a good time for us to get rid of some components, and replace them with standard components, our own custom components, or open source alternatives. Having less 3rd party dependencies was a huge plus point, but I do know sometimes it is unavoidable. Would you believe it, we still have a Visual Basic 6 machine we can't replace or reinstall. This system was originally setup 13 years ago. The hardware finally started to fail, but just before the hard drives gave up, we cloned it to a VMWare VM. We couldn't create a new VM from scratch because we can't find all the required 3rd party (closed source) components, and don't know where the licensing keys are for them either. VM's to the rescue!! :) 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