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There is a lot of interest in Lazarus these days after Kylix
bracara:
--- Quote from: "kmoffat" ---I would guess they made very little money on kylix and decided to change their focus. Very dissappointing.
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I expect that is true: most advanced Linux programmers appear to breathe C++ .
However, many amateur Delphi programmers like myself must have been disappointed by Kylix and its deployment issues.
I had another try at Kylix this weekend after installing Mandrake 9.2 and it was while searching the newsgroups for solutions that I discovered Lazarus. At the moment I'm on cloud 9 at being able to compile an app that will just click and run. So far Lazarus is what I expected Kylix to be, except for the lack of Delphi-style help, which is understandable at this stage in the project.
alexej:
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I had another try at Kylix this weekend after installing Mandrake 9.2 and it was while searching the newsgroups for solutions that I discovered Lazarus.
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Well something similar happened to me :mrgreen: I just bought Linux Format magazine and there was Lazarus (and Mandrake 9.2) on DVD.
bracara:
--- Quote ---Well something similar happened to me I just bought Linux Format magazine and there was Lazarus (and Mandrake 9.2) on DVD
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Huh??!! You mean Lazarus is on that DVD as well?! I suppose I should have guessed - it seems to be becoming normal that I download software and then find it on the LXF DVD the following week :roll:
chris.kirkpatrick:
I have been watching both Kylix and Lazarus/FreePascal over the last couple of years.
I used Kylix quite a bit, but found it largely inflexible and of course the compiler development was all done in-house by Borland, with the next version produced like a rabbit out of the hat at infrequent intervals.
Contrast this to the L/FPC project, which two years ago was in its infancy, with only the most primitive IDE, but has developed with the efforts of many developers, in a highly transparent way, and is now at nearly the state that Kylix was at two years ago (and didn't change very much except for the addition of the C++ compiler); L/FPC is now a very usable system, and you can watch it develop.
This is a tribute to the open software method of development: to my mind, this is the only sensible way to do development, with the stimulus of lots of disparate individuals all contributing in an open and free way to the project. I am very encouraged.
Success to the open developers!
Anonymous:
Yup, closed source sux.
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