[lazarus] FreeCLX and Kylix news!

[Jon Cochran]

On Tuesday March 20 2001 03:42 pm, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jon Cochran wrote:
> > On Tuesday March 20 2001 03:18 pm, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > > Another thing is that the CLX still contains some pretty basic
> > > functionality failures, which I hope Borland will fix soon.
> >
> > Out of curiosity, what is CLX missing?
>
> Simply put: All needed libraries to make it useful.
>
> - No C wrapper library sources for Qt.
>   So forget about VisualCLX unless you own Kylix.
	Not gonna argue this one...
>
> - No DBExpress, no Midas libraries. The useful database units that
>   are provided _NEED_ these libraries.
	You still will have clientdata set and whatnot...  really, other than DB 
drivers, which you *should* pay for, what else do you need?

> - All NetCLX components are missing altogether.
>   So no apache or server development, unless you use Indy.
>
	Indy is free.

> Not to mention that:
>
> - The system unit is only useful for Kylix, because you need special
> compiler magic to make it work. Which compiler has this ? Kylix only.

	Does this matter?  Wont' lazarus provide it's own equiv?

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