[lazarus] Delphi 5 prices!!!

[Peter Vreman]

> > > Ahhh. Got ya. I wasn't think in those terms. I would assume that if you
> > > are distributing something that the user needs to recompile you are
> > > suppling all of the source. Otherwise you need to distribute a library
> > > and not a PPU. FPC will change more frequently than say Delphi which
> > > allowed the distrubution of DCU files because the compiler itself didn't
> > > change over time.
> 
> Yes and No...  The Delphi compiler and IDE go through several change cycles
> between official releases, but we usually don't notice because most of them
> are not released as bug patches.  However, Borland *DOES*  make some changes
> available between official releases.
> 
> Now as for the VCL, most developers buy either the Professional, C/S or
> Enterprise editions, all of which come with full VCL source code.  That is
> so the developers can fully customize the component collection as needed.
> No need to wait for Borland to decide to add some hot new component.
> 
> >
> > Exactly; the Delphi 3 RTL and VCL come compiled and don't change until a
> > new release is out; ususally more than a year;
> >
> > This is different for FPC; it just means that you must be  a little
> careful
> > when releasing; e.g. don't release somthing that can only be compiled with
> the
> > latest-latest snapshot.
> >
> > The FPC team will of course do its best to change the units as little as
> > possible; but you've no doubt noticed that this is not easy :-)
> >
> 
> I, for one, am glad that the basic FPC compiler will be relatively stable
> between snapshots, but I think it would be more effective to finish the 1.0
> version and make that the official release platform and let the Lazarus
> group take the stance that all stable releases of Lazarus are based upon
> this stable platform until such time as it becomes necessary for Lazarus to
> start using the *next* stable version of FPC.
They could use 0.99.12b (soon to be available) as next stable compiler.
Almost all bugfixes in the 0.99.13 are also applied in that version.

Peter