[lazarus] BorCon Update

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Mike Z wrote:

> At 11:09 AM 7/11/00 +0200, you wrote:
> >
> >Try to find out what they want with their cross-development library/tools
> (clx).
> >My guess is that they'll try to cooperate with TrollTech from the Qt
> toolkit...
> >
> 
> Yes, they are using Qt.  Reasons: it's mature, popular, already a
> multi-platform toolkit, it was relatively easy to wrap OP around it, and
> they were really impressed with the quality and coding standards (as if the
> Qt programmers were 'heavily influenced by existing Borland code').
> 
> >And of course you can always ask:
> >  'How does all this this compare to Free Pascal ?'
> 
> I had a quick look at glibc.pas, which was very similar to linux.pas.

I know, I have a beta version.

> 
> >  'Why doesn't borland cooperate more with the FPC/Lazarus team in this C
> and VB world?'
> >But I'm not sure that you'll get a friendly reply :)
> >
> 
> I didn't really get unfriendly replies.  They seem to have a pretty strong
> corporate mentality, ie, they're developing a commercial product.  The
> replies I got were that they were reluctant to even look at FPC because of
> copyright issues.

They're afraid to find out we've been using their code ;)
But project Jedi for instance is a open-source kind of thing, we could at
least cooperate there !

Michael.