[Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> leledumbo wrote:
>> The whole JEDI sucks, dependencies hell everywhere and IS TIED TO WINDOWS!
>> Some of the components have been converted though.
>> Virtual Treeview is available for Lazarus.
>> Quickreport is not needed because we have LazReport, more over, FastReport
>> is also Lazarus compatible.
>> Lazarus can connect to many DBMS, MySQL is one of them.
>
> Yes, he knows about the database situation: his initial query was about how 
> best to use Delphi with MySQL.
>
> I was aware that at least part of JEDI had been converted (can anybody expand 
> on this?), but I don't know his exact areas of interest. Also I was aware 
> that Virtual Treeview had been compatible for quite some time (several 
> years?) but didn't want to tell him bluntly that his understanding was 
> outdated.
>
> I believe that he's been using Quickreport for some while, so I suspect that 
> his compatibility requirements would be quite aggressive. Comments, anyone?

Quickreport: from the days I worked with it, it uses windows metafiles to store the pages,
I doubt this will ever work in Lazarus.

Michael.