[Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be
Thu May 12 11:11:00 CEST 2011



On Thu, 12 May 2011, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:27:22AM +0200, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
>>> Lazarus is not suitable for trying to follow fast moving trends. Iphone
>>> was just yesterday, and even that is not really ready.
>>
>> I don't think that Lazarus is a bad choice for smartphone platforms,
>> it would be a great tool for targetting Android and iPhone at the same
>> time. The only issue is that we lack developers.
>
>> MonoTouch does the same thing Lazarus intends to do, but they are more
>> successful because they have money.
>
> Yes. And we have neither the interested developers nor fulltimers to be
> quick enough to track fastmoving targets, which was mostly my point.
>
> A side concern is the walled garden concept of many mobile phones. They
> don't exactly encourage portable software, but want custom made apps for
> their phones, preferably with their recommended tools.

Hence the conclusion: a web application is probably the best way to go when
developing business apps for the mobile.

(at least, that's what we concluded here at work).

Michael.




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