[lazarus] Why the FLC/Lazarus/KCL development should be speeded

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Sebastian [iso-8859-1] Günther wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> > Probably, yes, as it makes everything easier.
> > Whether it makes things better is debatable.
> 
> I don't know, I guess that the speed will be horribly. (especially
> loading speeds. Just take StarOffice with its OS abstraction layers...)

Yes, and for this reason the win32 abstraction layer (wine) slows things down...
Add to that the VCL layer and hop; one mouseclick must go through 2 extra layers.

> 
> 
> > 1) For the IDE: You'll see it by running ldd on the executable.
> 
> of course
> 
> > 2) For the VCL: I doubt anyone will use it. I don't see the use
> >    of having windows run on top of Linux; you miss the point of
> >    having Linux.
> 
> Yes and no, it could work as a temporary solution until the native
> libraries are ready.

Then you should better wait till you have the native version. try and do things
right from the first time, is my experience... 


> We will see; on the other hand I don't think this would influence any
> FreePascal related project (Lazarus and KCL) at all...

That is true, we shouldn't look at what they do, just try and get it working.

Michael.