Hi Doug Not only was Kylix a letdown, there is talk also of it being discontinued. To be fair though, it is easy to see the difficulty for Borland to deploy a Linux IDE of the same quality as Delphi when so much in different Linux distributions is variable, the widget set being a prime example: CLX just never caught on, amongst the myriad of more mature and more open toolsets.
I am assuming that you have experience with pascal, or ObjectPascal as the Delphi manuals call it (if not, why Kylix?). If so, may I suggest you look into a) fpc (Free Pascal Compiler, http://www.freepascal.org) b) Lazarus (An fpc IDE, aims to be an open-source Delphi clone, supports multiple widget sets [Win32 native on Windows!], can't remember the URL) Though python is probably my favourite language for general purpose hacking, there is a lot to be said for a native compiled language (sometimes speed _is_ an issue), and in particular there is a lot to be said for fpc: - Something like 99% Turbo Pascal compliant - Very nearly Delphi compliant (object-pascal) - (IMHO) Much cleaner language than C, still natively compiled - Supports operator overloading & inlining - Can be used to develop python extensions - Supports nearly effortless cross-compiling There are some problems with Lazarus at the moment, here is the biggie: It creates binaries of around 5MB for a minimal app, and this is because, at the moment it seems like it compiles the component library into the executable. This is somewhat of a problem for me but I expect this will change within a release or two. Lazarus is _very_ much like Delphi, and works on Windows, Linux, and possibly several other platforms. cya Caleb > and net for info about Borlands KYLIX 3 and have found little technical > info about it. Their screen shots are very impressive, similar to Visual > Basic. I have sent several emails to Borlands Sales and Pre-Sales > departments. Pre-Sales bounces and Sales won't answer. I'm sitting here > with money in hand ready to buy but not from a company that won't give me > the time of day. > > Does anyone of you have experiance with KYLIX 3 and do you think I should > consider buying it? Thank You, I'll go oil my keyboard now. > > Doug > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
