On Pi, 2006-09-15 at 15:01 +0200, Thierry Coq (Personnel) wrote:
> 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.
See and if you use Lazarus you'd get it working also in freeBSD and mac
and you would get native windows widgetset to boot. No "Q"s and also no
CLX problems after 1 year...
Tought luck I guess, but then again I admit that Lazarus has it quirks.
But Kylix was extremely low quality software, especialy if you looked at
the internals.
Ales
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