[Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

[Michael Schnell]

On 05/19/2011 10:28 AM, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> Michael, why do you bother Lazarus people with all this if MSEide+MSEgui has
> all what you need already? Simply use MSEide+MSEgui, no?
Great to see the inventor of "ifi" here again :-) !
I would not have continued my research on this since years, unless you 
would have proven that it in fact is possible and viable.


Regarding my long-term goals:

In our company there is a "Firmware" department, that I am responsible 
for, and a "software" department, that my colleagues run.

Obviously, the firmware department creates software for embedded devices 
(right now moving from home-brew OSes to Linux).

Less obviously, also the "Software" department also mainly creates 
software for embedded thingies, only that these are not cheap small 
devices, but built on embedded PCs.

The main difference is that "Firmware"  of course is done in C while 
"Software" according to the in-house definition is done in 
Delphi-Language using the Delphi IDE.

Right now, this requires that Windows is used on the embedded PCs.

To allow for running  "software" on the upcoming Linux based "devices" 
(and to allow to pay less for software licenses, interesting regarding 
decreasing hardware cost and increasing sold numbers), they would need 
to compile their million-line projects for Linux (and maybe ARM) while 
continuing to be able to compile the with Delphi and maintain all this 
in a decent way.

That is why they need an as easy as possible migration path. I feel that 
Lazarus could provide this much better than MSEide and MSEgui, as it is 
done much more according to the lines of Delphi (which of course is not 
a plus in many other issues).

I feel that there is a (faint) chance to talk the "Software" people into 
trying Lazarus, but there is no chance in suggesting MSEgui :-( .

Thanks for asking ;-) .
-Micheal