[lazarus] FreeCLX and Kylix news!

[Michael A. Hess]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> I would like to add a plea here:
> 
> It's not because Borland now made CLX available, that we should all of
> a sudden jump on the Kylix BandWagon. The LCL has come a long way, and
> I think that the focus should still be on getting the IDE to a
> workable state.

Oh I don't think any of use consider abandoning the LCL. I believe that
we would like to make sure that the Lazarus IDE can be built with
FreeCLX just so that it gives the delphi community that tool as an
alternative to using Kylix. The one negative with FreeCLX no matter how
you look at it is that you can not build commercial apps unless you
actually buy Kylix. I myself have a commercial app I want to make
available for Linux but will not be able to afford the price of Kylix to
do so. My choice is to use FPC and Lazarus. The other advantage is that
it will then be portable to a larger audience then Kylix will be able to
anytime soon.

> Adding support for CLX and other things means in this case: Make sure
> that lazarus can use both the LCL class library and the CLX;

I don't know that we intend on integrating FreeCLX into LCL in any way.
I believe it is just to make sure that the IDE can be built with FreeCLX
which if it uses standard unit names and component names shouldn't be a
problem. Then it can be used to actually build FreeCLX apps. by either
compiling with FPC or calling the commandline version of Kylix.
 
> In short: The LCL and IDE should still be the primary goal for
> Lazarus.

It is, it is.   :-)

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