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

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:

> Michael Schnell schrieb:
>> On 08/07/2011 10:57 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>>>   Stop cloning VCL and rather innovate. Come up
>>> with something better than VCL.
>> Now as Delphi switches to Firemonky as is cross-platform, it might be a 
>> nice idea to offer a Firemonkey choice in Lazarus, as well.
>
> A choice instead of what?
>
> When FireMonkey is different from the VCL, it's also different from the LCL. 
> Your choice would mean fpMonkey *instead* of Lazarus.
>
> OTOH it would be nice to use the Lazarus IDE with other libraries than LCL. 
> Hard to do, though, since many IDE windows have to be overridden (OI, 
> component palette, form designers, package installer...)

As long as the firemonkey stuff depends from TComponent, nothing needs to be
changed. All is in place, even the development of non-TControl stuff can be
done with Lazarus as it is today.

Michael.