On 10/31/06, George Birbilis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Please identify the objective of this thread.
You need a Free Pascal or Lazarus port to .NET?
Are you trying to convince us that we need a .NET FPC / Lazarus port?
Why do you need a FPC / Lazarus port to .NET? The reasons above only mention you don´t want to pay for Delphi.NET, VS or Mono.
Just in case you haven´t noticed, mono is dual licensed, so you can only write GPL software on it unless you buy a license from Novell.
If you just want to use .NET technology on LCL software then It´s much easier to write a C++/CLI program that exposes a procedural C API that wraps whatever you want to call from dot net, and then call that API on Free Pascal.
And yes, that only works on Windows. And I think you need to buy Visual Studio to write that C++/CLI software.
Thank you very much, but we can implement our own technology =) And make it cross-platform.
This is the reason why we support Apache modules or our own servers and not whatever SQL Server uses.
We support much more targets then Pocket PC.
And we already support Windows CE without .NET. We also run on Linux based PDAs.
Yes, unicode for the GUI.
-- Those are commercial products, plus not opensource. Borland Turbo Delphi for .NET Explorer is free, but only for personal use I think (maybe also free for free/opensource projects? Not sure) and Chrome's command-line compiler is only free to use (the VS.net IDE plugin is commercial)
Please identify the objective of this thread.
You need a Free Pascal or Lazarus port to .NET?
Are you trying to convince us that we need a .NET FPC / Lazarus port?
Why do you need a FPC / Lazarus port to .NET? The reasons above only mention you don´t want to pay for Delphi.NET, VS or Mono.
Just in case you haven´t noticed, mono is dual licensed, so you can only write GPL software on it unless you buy a license from Novell.
If you just want to use .NET technology on LCL software then It´s much easier to write a C++/CLI program that exposes a procedural C API that wraps whatever you want to call from dot net, and then call that API on Free Pascal.
And yes, that only works on Windows. And I think you need to buy Visual Studio to write that C++/CLI software.
> Our time is better spent on things like: more PDA platforms,
> web-development (something similar to IntraWeb for lazarus, but
> cross-platform), Unicode support, etc.
If you target .NET you have much of that stuff ready (for that target at least),
Thank you very much, but we can implement our own technology =) And make it cross-platform.
This is the reason why we support Apache modules or our own servers and not whatever SQL Server uses.
e.g. .NET Compact Framework for WinCE/PocketPC
We support much more targets then Pocket PC.
And we already support Windows CE without .NET. We also run on Linux based PDAs.
As for Unicode support it should mostly be an FPC concern, not a Lazarus one I think (do you mean the GUI libs?)
Yes, unicode for the GUI.
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
