[Lazarus] Please define "delphi compatibility"

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

[based on my suggestion about changes to the TDBNavigator component]


What is Lazarus's take on "delphi compatibility"?

Does that mean...

a) Lazarus simply makes it easy to move Delphi projects to Lazarus - a
once off process, and only in that specific direction.

b) Or does it mean "having a shared code base where developers still use
Delphi under Windows, and Lazarus under Mac/Linux/etc".


If (b), then how does Lazarus handle VCL vs LCL forms?  *.dfm vs *.lfm
in a shared code base. Or does it mean for example myform.pas unit would
have a myform.dfm and myform.lfm. This would suck big time, because you
would constant have to keep all form changes in sync between Delphi and
Lazarus - no easy task, and very error prone.


Regards,
  Graeme.