[Lazarus] Delphi XE2 uses FPC, plus VCL just not portable

Bernd Mueller mueller.b at gmx.net
Sun Aug 7 17:37:03 CEST 2011


Vincent Snijders wrote:
> 2011/8/7 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>:
>> On 7 August 2011 13:18, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
>>> Maybe they killed it because they are not competent enought to port
>>> the VCL to other operating systems.
>> Please tell me that was a joke. Do you really think with their vast
>> amounts of resources, developers and financial backing that they
>> really couldn't do that.
> 
> They may have (had) them, but had different priorities. For example a
> win64 compiler ... ;-)

> 
> IOW, I am not impressed with the amount of resources the Delphi owners
> have or what to spend.

I have to agree. They even are not able (have no time or whatsoever) to 
produce an ARM compiler. In former days, Borland had been one of the top 
compiler producers.

Regards, Bernd.





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