[lazarus] bye for now

[Nicolas Aragon]

Hello,

>I believe it when I see or at least hear an announcement that they are
>doing it. Job postings do not a project make.

I copy some quotes from John Kaster at the end of this message. The
last one isn't related to the topic, but it shows how Kaster's posting
are considered "the voice of Borland" in their newsgroups.

>yet but when it is done it will be done in such a way that any API can
>use it.

I finally succeeded with such API independance... just to realize that
it would be messy for components developers :-(

>Oh well, good luck with whatever you intend on doing.   :-)

Thanks!! :-)

greetings

  Nico

P.D. I will unsubscribe tonight, if you have any comments to me:
nico at clubdelphi.com

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> Any comments from Borlanders? It looks like Borland is taking the Linux
> plunge. Before, they always denied it by saying there weren't enough
> resources.

We never denied that we were looking at Linux.  We've been looking at
Linux
since before customers were asking for it.  We already have products
that
RUN on Linux.

As I have said before, just because you haven't heard anything about a
certain subject from us doesn't mean nothing is going on.

It's still pretty obvious we don't have enough resources since we're
hiring
Linux people, isn't it?


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> No, it isn't that we haven't heard from Borland on Delphi for Linux, it is
> that some prominent Borlanders said that Borland had looked at the
> possibility of a Delphi for Linux and concluded that it wasn't the best
> allocation of their (scarce) resources.

That doesn't mean we were never going to do it.  Just that we couldn't
at
that time.

> Borland has decided to stop looking and start acting with regard to Linux.

Again, we've been working on Linux for quite some time.

> would be very nice if I could port my Windows app to Linux with a minimum of
> rewrite. It uses Paradox tables.

Just so you know, it is extremely unlikely that we will have native
support
for Paradox tables on Linux.

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> If Borland is making Delphi 5 presentations to user's groups all over the
> world, I don't understand why they can't make official announcements about
> features, etc here or on the web site ...

I have made clear official things in threads in this newsgroup.  You
just
have to read back through the newsgroup, or check the Delphi 5 tracker
site.

Our marketing department would have to put out the "official"
announcements,
and I'm not in marketing any more.