[Lazarus] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Lazarus (UTF8) and Windows: SysToUTF8, UTF8ToSys... Is there a better solution?

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sun Dec 29 18:53:25 CET 2013


On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 04:31:07PM +0100, Sven Barth wrote:
> > Right.
> > I didn't understand one thing: If I'm a Delphi XE2 programmer
> > (suppose), why I will need to keep FPC compatible with Delphi? If I'm
> > a Delphi programmer I will use... Delphi.
> 
> Because you (the XE2 programmer) might look at Delphi XE5's NewGen 
> compiler (the LLVM based one) and think: "What the f*** are they doing 
> with the language?! O.o"
> Or you might want to be compatible to more platforms than provided by 
> Delphi XE2 or you might want to keep using a VCL compatible GUI library 
> on other platforms whereby in Delphi you need to use FireMonkey here.

Or you port stuff to Lazarus not in one big bang, but project by project.

Or you use a lot of external packages.




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