[Lazarus] Target Survey

[Norbert Crettol]

Le 20.07.16 à 17:40, Marcello a écrit :
> Hi all
> Thinking to HTML and the browsers that turned respectively into a "GUI language" and a "sort of virtual machine where to run" code, I often think about what role could have the pascal.
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> This is the world of interpreted languages, while pascal, currently compiled, has many advantages.
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> I think then to Lazarus and how it was made and the role it might have in a world with different OS. After all, browsers and VMs are not written in interpreted languages.
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> I try to explain, forgive my english, please :)
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> I could put an application server (written like the Lazarus IDE) called for example "LazApplicazionBrowser", on the same floor of a browser or a VM: compiled for each OS. Then put the packages of Lazarus on the same floor of a browser plugin.
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> This "LazApplicazionBrowser" with any module may install modules from either source (require the presence of fpc) or compiled (in this case the modules in repository should already be compiled for all the necessary OS). "LazApplicazionBrowser" then could make the "rebuild", ready for use, natively compiled on target OS.
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> Obviously we're not forced to exclude an interpreted pascal, but I think pascal applications with this system may have a greater spread on all the various OS.
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> I'd like to hear your comments.
> Thank you
> Marcello Basso
>
Hello,

It sounds like the Ada Web Server project (http://libre.adacore.com/tools/aws/).
You've an open source web server you can compile on any Gnat Ada supported
platform and customize to your own needs. I don't know if they have plugins.

Regards
Norbert