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In article <72mrco$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anders Ohlsson wrote:
>Delphi, it was also demoed at the same conference. This is basically
>middle tier app servers for any java VM (Linux included).
Pity middle tier is not what I'm (and most others) are after.
>Porting Delphi and C+Builder to any other platform would be a lot of work.
>They're obviously very tightly married to the Windows API.
Do they have to be thou? I'm sure the VCL could work on top of say GTK or
QT. When I look at things like:
type
Form1 = class(TForm)
StatusBar1: TStatusBar;
MainMenu1: TMainMenu;
Exit1: TMenuItem;
end;
and
procedure TForm1.Exit1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
Close;
end;
I don't see any correlation to the WinAPI, *SURE* the VCL for Win32 has ties
to the WinAPI, but the VCL is just a wrapper, and as a developer, I don't
*need* to go below to the VCL for most things, unless I'm writing my own
components.
I'm sure there would be someway to wrap GTK into the VCL model, yes it will
be big, yes it will take time, and probably quite a bit of money, but from
the masses and masses of people who are constantly asking for Delphi/X or
Delphi for Linux the return will be amazing...
Sure, Linux is free, but *no one* ever said it's applicaitions, or
development environments had to be free, unless you're developing GPL code,
which you'll then have to follow the GPL restrictions. And as Delphi/X
would no doubt be non free, I doubt we could release GPL applications with
it, however, Inprise could come up with a modifeid GPL liecense and call it
something like IPL :-)
But to top it all off, I think the hardest thing about making a Delphi/X
environment would be the database side of things, I doubt people would want
BDE/Linux, so we'd go for a direct ODBC access I presume.
Anyways, thats just some thoughts of mine :)
Mark
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