I understand that the purpose of the tbbeta list is to debug the current TB! beta version, but perhaps this suggestion has a place here.
This post was sent using TB! v. 3.99.3 on OpenSuse v.11.4 under Wine 1.3.12 with near to full functionality. I am no longer a MS Windows user and do not expect to return to being one. OTOH, I am still a TB! user (since v.1.34) and would like to continue being one. But I am also a Linux user and strongly suggest that RIT Labs make an effort to port The Bat! to this superior Operating System, so I can use it with with my OpenOffice, Opera, Chrome, Firefox, Seamonkey, Dr. Web and Nero versions for Linux (and other Unix-like Operating Systems). As I understand it, porting Delphi to Linux is also possible and Windows will continue to lose ground as more computer users become aware of the advantages that Open Code Community Based OS's have to offer. (winehq.org mentions that v. 3 of TB! will run under Wine, but not version 4. How about a linux version of TB! 5)? Douglas Hinds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylix_(software) Danny Thorpe seems to have been largely responsible for getting Borland to fund a Linux version of Delphi, and he did a lot of the work necessary to make the Delphi compiler produce Linux executables. While both Delphi and Kylix run on 32-bit Intel processors, Linux uses different register conventions than Windows and, of course, the executable and library file formats are different; see DLL, EXE, ELF for details. ... Kylix will run under more recent Linux distributions but requires some research and additional configuration (e.g. having an older version of glibc available, and making other changes to the default environment). In 2009 Embarcadero posted the current Delphi and C++ Builder roadmap. As part of project Delphi "X" cross compilation for Mac and Linux is planned. ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 5.0.0.153 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
