[Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

[zeljko]

On Tuesday 28 of February 2012 00:58:20 Craig Peterson wrote:
> On 2/27/2012 4:21 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> > My point was more about the fact that Scooter Software has applied
> > there own fixes to CLX, and have also upgraded their Kylix 3 to use
> > Qt3 (instead of Qt 2.3 which came with Kylix).
> 
> Actually, the upgrade to Qt 3 was Andreas Hausladen's doing, and he did
> release it, but it isn't available online anymore.  It was an impressive
> piece of work, and I think it laid the groundwork for Lazarus' Qt
> support, since I remember seeing Zeljan's name associated with it too.

Yes, I was involved in Qt3 support for Kylix, but it have nothing to do with 
lazarus qtlcl , since Qt3 used different (and better approach IMO) to generate 
C bindings. You get all clasees (even protected methods), so overriding was 
piece of cake - and yes K3/Qt3 apps were snappy and stable :)

> 
> We do have a shocking number of fixes on top of it though.
> 
> > If they shared all there Kylix enhancements, I have no idea.
> 
> No, we haven't.  Borland screwed up the Kylix community project, and
> Andreas stopped maintaining the unofficial patches at the same time, so
> there isn't anywhere for us to share them.
> 
> > So at least the framework around Kylix has grown, after is was
> > "considered" to be dead.
> 
> It was "considered" dead, and then the Kylix community project and
> Borland's poor handling of Simon Kissel's cross-compiler killed it
> completely.

Afair, at that time Simon, Andreas and me asked Borland for and NDA .. I was 
ready to sit down and fix Kylix for free - it costs Borland exactly $0, but 
they answered after few months that Kylix is not their priority (and that 
means = dead)....all happened after M$ was involved into borland ... after 
that .Net delphi was out etc etc ....
So Kylix is dead because of political reasons - nothing else.


zeljko

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