[Lazarus] Delphi post-XE3 roadmap

[Marco van de Voort]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:53:53PM +0200, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> > Then you will also see that your Office counterexample is irrelevant, since
> > app store rules don't apply to Office. (but they do to nearly everybody
> > else).
> 
> I am not aware of any app store rule that says that people need to use
> native controls and cannot use controls which merely immitate native
> ones. I think that I would have heard if Qt apps were prohibited in
> the Mac app store for example, remember that Qt is not native.
> 
> So please show the rule which prohibits custom drawn apps (seriously,
> it would be something interresting to know if it exists). If there is
> no such rule, then your entire point makes no sense, since it
> presuposes such a rule.

The point is that the VCL styles are a different binary type (win32) than
allowed in the store (WinRT)