[Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

[Sven Barth]

Am 12.05.2011 11:11, schrieb michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be:
>
>
> 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).

For one of our customers we have started to develop a mobile version of 
our application (around one and a half year ago) and there the 
restriction is: no online connection. So we're using a "synchronize 
scenario" with a LCL application (Windows Mobile 5 & 6).

Regards,
Sven