[Lazarus] Delphi post-XE3 roadmap

[Anders E. Andersen]

Den 23-08-2012 10:37, Sven Barth skrev:
>> Where is your source for this? The blogs on the Embarcadero website puts
>> a lot of emphasis on the firemonkey components and as far as I have read
>> the framework will ship for both Windows and OSX from the get go. The
>> mobile platforms will be added at a later date.
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> This "they will be added at a later date" is exactly the point. They 
> release a product as the successor to XE2 and leave those people in 
> the rain that already built upon the mobile components provided by XE2.

Well I haven't used XE2 myself, but the impression I get, both from 
Embarcadero and from others, was that the mobile solution was not really 
too userfriendly. You have to jump a not insignificant number of hoops 
to get it running. Keeping that in mind I would guess that the number of 
people that is actually affected by this delay is reasonably small. Also 
keeping in mind that they are not cancelling anything, but just delaying 
the mobile platform until they feel it is ready, I really think this is 
a small issue. I would actually give Embarcadero credit for realizing 
that part of their product is not quite ready and admitting it outright.

There are plenty of good reasons to be sceptical of Embarcaderos 
handling of Delphi, but this isn't one of them, in my opinion anyway.

Anders