[lazarus] To see what I mean about the traffic

[Marco van de Voort]

> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> 
> > > Peter Vreman wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > In the tallbacks there were some negative things about lazarus. Most
> > > > were from commercial developpers that can afford to buy kylix and have
> > > > to deal with time to market.
> > > 
> > > Yeah I read those too. Kinda of discouraging. Yeah well see them squawk
> > > when they are asked to port their product to OS/2 or FreeBSD or Solaris,
> > > etc.
> > 
> > I think also when the first larger projects get deployment problems to other
> > distributions or modified (upgraded by hand) standard distributions.
> 
> Yes, this is one of the things I wrote in my article about Kylix.
> There is no setup tool _ la 'installshield' or 'wise'; given the 20+ 
> libraries that are needed to run a Kylix application, this will give 
> some nice setup problems. Especially since they require specially 
> patched linux loaders and glibc versions.

Moreover, the buggyness of Kylix atm, will spawn some fix-versions and soon
new versions, which will increase different sets of libs, or libs with
slight incompabilities with eachother.

The total of these things will create something to which the windows
DLL-hell will be a non-issue.