[Lazarus] Delphi wxWidget plugin for Lazarus

[Ron Grove]

I don't see anything in the video that prevented you from making edits  
in Lazarus.  He copies files back and forth for some reason, not sure  
what's up with that.  I don't have to do that because VMWare Fusion  
allows for pretty seamless file sharing.

As for CodeGear benefitting from embracing FPC, I haven't bought the  
argument.  FPC and Lazarus would make a Windows only Delphi completely  
superfluous if they had the same third party component support that  
Delphi does.  It would suffer the same fate as most Java IDE vendors  
as the open source ones got feature parity.  Not interested in  
starting a debate on it, but I only see them becoming irrelevant by  
embracing FPC.  If they want to survive, they need to make themselves  
a more compelling product than FPC and Lazarus are.   They were on the  
right path with Kylix and completely dropped the ball.  Then they  
dropped it with a costly, misguided .NET strategy.  They're fighting  
for existence my friend and FPC/Lazarus only highlight their past  
failures and future challenges IMHO.

-Ron

On Mar 31, 2009, at 12:56 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Ron Grove <ron.grove at me.com> wrote:
>> Having posted on that thread already, I'm not sure I understand your
>> comment.  I just checked to see if there were new posts there bashing
>> Lazarus or FPC and I don't see it.  One poster thinks Lazarus is a
>> "disaster", but it's only one post.
>
> I think Bee meant the overall feeling the Delphi users have against
> FPC and Lazarus - not just in that post.  Like I said before, I don't
> understand why? CodeGear could benefit from embracing FPC and
> vice-versa.
>
>> but we'll see.  The process, from the video, appears to start in
>> Delphi where the coding is done, and then exported to a Lazarus  
>> format
>> primarily just for recompilation on the target platform.
>
> And what happens if things don't work so well under Mac? Can they
> modify the code under Lazarus and if so, how do you get those changes
> back into the Delphi code?  I can only see that process work for very
> simply projects like the one in the demo.
>
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
>
>
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