[lazarus] lazarus/kylix

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:44:58 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time)
Michael Van Canneyt <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be> wrote:

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> 
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
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> > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:18:38 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time)
> > Michael Van Canneyt <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be> wrote:
> >
> > > Kylix IS built on Wine. It is just the Delphi IDE (with some windows-specific
> > > things removed) running under Wine. This is true for Kylix 1 and Kylix
> > > 2.
> >
> > I doubt that. There are for example some bugs in the auto-class-completion, that were not in Delphi 5.
> 
> 1. That is no argument; In the porting process, some things may have gone wrong.
>    You did not seriously think that they would rewrite the IDE from scratch ?
> 
> 2. If they had rewritten it from scratch, then it would have been
>    extremely stupid to have used wine !

Of course they recycled some Delphi code. But I doubt, that Kylix is just Delphi on wine. They must have rewritten big parts of it. And IMO this Kylix "port" is not Delphi.
But I don't care.
I know an alternative.

 
Mattias