Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-08-05 Thread Ruben Baumann
"windozbloz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bye Bye Billy Bob... > > I'm back with one more question, then I'll chill. I have scoured the news > and net for info about Borlands KYLIX 3 and have found little technical > info about it. Their screen shots are very imp

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-29 Thread Adriaan Renting
I've used Kylix 3 in the past, but would not consider it nowadays, because it's realy behind the times, it can't run on the latest linux versions and does only support Qt 2.7, while Qt4 has just been released. I'm a C++ programmer and loved Borland C++Builder, I was disappointed by how buggy the C+

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-25 Thread Vladimir Konrad
> > 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. http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ Sorry if the above came out somewhere else in the thread, did not read all. Vlad -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-25 Thread Peter Maas
Jeff Epler schrieb: > I honestly don't know why anyone would spend money for a development > environment, no matter how fancy. I don't know why anyone would develop > software in a language that doesn't have at least one open > implementation. FreePascal is OSS. I recently developed a mixed Delph

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-21 Thread Thomas Bartkus
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:37:48 +1000, David Trudgett wrote: > My advice would be to steer clear of Kylix and choose one of the other > environments suggested to you. If you really like Pascal, fpc may be a > possibility as someone mentioned. ... Well - I really like Python! But - climbing back o

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-20 Thread David Trudgett
"Thomas Bartkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Good question! Wither Borland? > > My impression (second hand - based on no direct experience with > Kylix!) is that Borlands wonderful Delphi product ported to Linux > has been a dissapointment. > > * * * Someone with real experience on Kylix -

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-19 Thread Mike Meyer
Thomas Bartkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:56:24 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > >> "Thomas Bartkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Re-train on a new platform, > and re-write from scratch? >>> >>> What do you do when an open source project you were using gets >>> aband

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-18 Thread Luis M. Gonzalez
Luis M. Gonzalez wrote: > As I said, "it is not python" (Peter Hansen, please don't jump to my > jugular...) Hey Pete, I was joking on that one! Here's the missing smiley ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-18 Thread Thomas Bartkus
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:56:24 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > "Thomas Bartkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> > Re-train on a new platform, >>> > and re-write from scratch? >> >> What do you do when an open source project you were using gets >> abandoned? > > cvs import -m "sources for orphaned projec

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-18 Thread Mike Meyer
"Thomas Bartkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Re-train on a new platform, >> > and re-write from scratch? > > What do you do when an open source project you were using gets abandoned? cvs import -m "sources for orphaned project" > Hard to see much difference here. Doing support for objec

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-18 Thread Luis M. Gonzalez
I'd suggest you take another path: Since we're in a python mailing list, I assume you like python, so instead of Kylix (or Object Pascal), you could try Boo (boo.codehaus.org) . Boo is not python, but it is very similar. It could be described as a statically typed version of python for the .NET fra

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-18 Thread Thomas Bartkus
"windozbloz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bye Bye Billy Bob... > > I'm back with one more question, then I'll chill. I have scoured the news > and net for info about Borlands KYLIX 3 and have found little technical > info about it. Their screen shots are very impr

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-18 Thread Thomas Bartkus
> Jeff Epler wrote: > > > I honestly don't know why anyone would spend money for a development > > environment, no matter how fancy. I don't knowdefinitelye would develop > > software in a language that doesn't have at least one open > > implementation. It's called (ROI) Return On Investment. If

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-18 Thread Caleb Hattingh
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 ex

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-18 Thread windozbloz
Jeff Epler wrote: > I honestly don't know why anyone would spend money for a development > environment, no matter how fancy. I don't knowdefinitelye would develop > software in a language that doesn't have at least one open > implementation. > > It's a great way to get screwed when Borland goes

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-18 Thread Jeff Epler
I honestly don't know why anyone would spend money for a development environment, no matter how fancy. I don't know why anyone would develop software in a language that doesn't have at least one open implementation. It's a great way to get screwed when Borland goes under or decides they only want

Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-18 Thread windozbloz
Bye Bye Billy Bob... I'm back with one more question, then I'll chill. I have scoured the news 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