Hello Ales,
On your last point, I have personally tested the development of the same
piece of software, the same code, for both Linux and Windows, using
Kylix 3. The software was a GIS (Geographical Information System), so it
was quite spectacular to show how the same code could compile on both
platforms. Of course, Qt code was used extensively, on both platforms.
We did have one code difference in the end : Windows uses a three-byte
system for high-quality color pixels, where linux uses four. A few
(tens) of $IFDEFs solved the issue in the basic graphical component. It
could be done and has been done.
Too bad Borland was not persistent in this very good idea of Kylix as a
portable Delphi, and a portable VCL, which would have created an
ecostructure of both commercial and free components. It was and is very
much in the spirit of (Object) Pascal to be portable everywhere.
Thierry.
Aleš Katona a écrit :
Kylix was a ported Delphi
No it wasn't. You couldn't compile the same code in Kylix and Delphi as
you can in Lazarus on various platforms. Kylix was an ugly hack with a
lot of "Q" in it. Didn't work even..
Ales
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