[Lazarus] Console App Development

[waldo kitty]

On 8/11/2011 16:13, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 11 August 2011 21:38, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
> <felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I find the choice of going for a console app quite curious.
>
> +1
>
> And this is not the first message (in recent days) where the developer
> is considering console app over gui app. Weird, but I guess there must
> be a niche market out there we don't know about. :)

+5

i have numerous apps that are being "upgraded" from DOS console apps and there's 
really no reason for them to have to incorporate all of the fluff'n'stuff of 
graphics... especially when doing so would require that the older boxen that are 
being used must be upgraded to the li'l monsters of today's apparent world and 
all for nothing more than graphical stuffs...

i'm still rather appalled that lazarus takes 75Meg on one machine and 125Meg on 
another for a debug environment... i'm not sure about the size difference since 
both should be identical other than one on w2k and the other on vista... but 
still...

> Personally, if I had to go console app, I would probably choose
> something like FreeVision at this point. I think you get quite a bit
> of functionality for free. Though I haven't written a long running
> console app (this excludes simple utility apps) in decades.

i just found out about freevision earlier today in this thread... never used it 
or any of the similar stuff in TP/BP back in the day... everything i've written 
has been straight forward and minimal... no OOPs stuff other than message base 
management stuffs i decided to try many years back... even today, i still code 
my own replacement routines for stuff that it too large or cumbersome...

this switchover to the Lazarus RAD environment and FPC is really taking me on a 
beating :(