[lazarus] BorCon Update

[mooseman]

as a side note to this, i just picked up the latest issue of Linux Journal
(i think it was) and they had a quickie report on FPC but absolutely
nothing on Lazarus. thought that was too bad.
i don't have any idea who would have contacted who, but it seems that
generally the FPC people and the Laz people work pretty closely, too bad no
one mentioned the Laz side. (or perhaps they did but the mag left it out)

moose.

At 11:09 AM 7/11/00 +0200, you wrote:
>
>
>On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Mike Zambeck wrote:
>
>> Greetings from San Diego.  Thought you all might want to know what's up
>> down here...
>> 
>> 1.  Chairman Dale and Co. seem to have gotten the bug to create
>> cross-platform development tools.  Not just win32/linux, but very cross
>> platform.
>
>They call it CLX, i think.. there was an announcement of that not so long
time ago.
>
>> 
>> 2.  They also seem convinced that they can get a large number of VB
>> programmers to switch to Delphi with this theme: "Delphi 5 is the quickest
>> path to linux app development from VB.
>
>Aaarggghh.... VB programmers coming to linux.. God help us :)
>
>> 
>> 3.  They had a couple more demos:
>> 
>> a.  The componant palette has a few tabs now.
>> 
>> b.  The quickie demo worked okay.
>> 
>> c.  They got a database access demo working with db componants and midas
>> that worked after a few tries.  Man, the guy doing the demo was bright red
>> and sweating bullets while he was having problems :)
>> 
>> All in all, pretty impressive.  The lady behind me even let out an 'oh my
>> god' when the db demo worked.
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>
>I don't see what could be so hard about it ? DB access is not the toughest
>part, or so it would seem to me, once you have the GUI up and running...
>
>> 
>> 4.  I've only attended two linux/kylix sessions but they both had pretty
>> low attendance.  Based on chatting with a few attendies, it seems like the
>> delphi community at large isn't as excited about kylix as you might think.
>> Just my impression after a day...
>
>My idea is that most people probably say 'we'll wait and see when it
comes'...
>
>> 
>> 5.  No mention of FPC/Lazarus.  That kind of irks me, especially when they
>> keep claiming that they're the 'first linux rad tool.'  Who knows, you
>> might be first!  I may bring this up to them if I have the opportunity.
>> Speaking of scheduling, the party line is 'release when it's finished.'
>
>On a conference in Holland, Charlie Calvert asked who used Free Pascal -
>exactly one guy out of 200 put up his hand - the one who reported it to me:)
>
>> 
>> If anyone wants me to try to find out anything in particular, send a note
>> to me or the list and I'll do my best.
>
>Try to find out what they want with their cross-development library/tools
(clx).
>My guess is that they'll try to cooperate with TrollTech from the Qt
toolkit...
>
>And of course you can always ask:
>  'How does all this this compare to Free Pascal ?'
>  'Why doesn't borland cooperate more with the FPC/Lazarus team in this C
and VB world?'
>But I'm not sure that you'll get a friendly reply :)
>
>Especially project Jedi is something of interest for both Borland and FPC !  
>I once contacted Charlie Calvert about it, and he seemed interested, but he
>never contacted me again afterwards...
>
>Michael.
>
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