[lazarus] Why the FLC/Lazarus/KCL development should bespeeded

Michael Van Canneyt michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be
Fri Oct 1 06:45:46 EDT 1999




On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Shane Miller wrote:

> 
> 
> >>> Sebastian Günther <sguenther at gmx.de> 09/30/99 01:38PM >>>
> Shane Miller wrote:
> > 
> > Borland will not use WINE.
> 
> >>I hope so of course, but why are you so sure about this...?
> 
> I spoke with Michael Swindel and another person at Inprise.

Haha. Why then did I have to sign a NDA, if they chat freely about
it with you. You have some high connections there :-) ?

> They talked about gtk and qt and how they work and which one we
> (the lazarus project) were using.  Also, they spoke about hiring
> someone that knew something about the widget set (either gtk, qt,
> or whatever) depending on which they chose.  It was quite fun
> chatting with them (I don't remember the other gentlemen's name).
>  I spoke with Michael via EMAIL and the other guy called me.

You plan to work for them maybe :-) ?

> They were familiar with the Lazarus project, along with the
> Medigio project (whatever it was called).

I told them that died a long time ago.

> 
> They plan on doing something very similiar to what we are doing.
> It seems like they have the same ideas and hopes that we have
> about the Linux environment and what it could become.

True, but I find this contrasts with their plans to work with corel.
(but that is my highly personal opinion, based just on what I see
on the net)

But your information is partially correct. They plan indeed to use
GTK or Qt for the VCL. (Which one wasn't sure when I spoke to them)
If they use GTK they could use our headers, so I was told :-)

AFAIK they are in contact with the Qt team; because it seems that
if they want Qt then Qt would need to include RTTI in their objects.
(or something of the sort, I don't exactly remember)

Michael.






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