On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Giuliano Colla wrote:
Timothy Ha ha scritto:
I would like to know your opinion about the new initiative called
OpenDelphi.org
[..]
I fully agree with other postings, it's a nonsense. But there's a fact I'd
like to point to Lazarus community.
Kylix 3 has been distributed also in a GPL'd version. Not the IDE, but nobody
gives a damn: at least in non/windows environment, Borland's IDE is slow,
unstable and buggy.
However there's a full basic set of GPL components, which are at Delphi 7
level, as compared to Delphi 4 level of many Lazarus components.
Why not take advantage of them, and provide an almost 100% source
compatibility with Delphi, now that Delphi is dead?
GPL components have been developed with multi-platform in mind, with
platform/interface specificities isolated well enough to make the porting to
Lazarus interface independent structure an affordable task.
I've already started trying to compare Lazarus and Delphi GPL components. If
there's some interest, I'd feel encouraged to go on, and to share with others
what I'm doing.
The crossfpc project has focused on getting the FreeCLX to work with
FPC. GUI programs and even DB related stuff compiled with FPC from
within the Delphi IDE !
The license is an issue, though;
the CLX CAN NOT be used to <quote>Create a competing product</quote>.
So that limits it's use in Lazarus.
The crossfpc project manager (Simon Kissel) should be able to tell more
about this.
Michael.
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