Opinions on Kylix?

[Bendito]

Any opinions on Kylix? What's the advantages of Lazarus over Kylix? Disadvantages?

[Lightning]

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[Lightning]

Lazarus is OpenSource, uses native platform interfaces and makes fast apps.
Kylix uses a customized version of the TrollTech QT library and is slower but the professional version has more components.
Borland won't upgrade Kylix at least until 2005, maybe never will.
Lazarus is constantly being upgraded and will become better than Kylix/Delphi.
You should get the Open version of Kylix from Borland and test it (it's not really Open Source only free).

[lewjoubert]

I got Kylix with Delphi 7. When trying it on Mandrake 10.0 it just hangs the system. Apparantly not compatable with new kernels. Seems like a lot of junk to me!

[Lightning]

Did you mean Kylix (1,2,3) and Delphi 7 or did you try to run Delphi 7 with wine ?
It works or Red Hat 9 i had Kylix 1 and 3 (Open), but a friend told me Kylix 3 Prof. is verry good and i know a company who uses it.
I realy "love" Lazarus + FPC and i think they follow a more direct (normal) path to crossplatform support.

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I can only edit my messages ?!

[Vincent Snijders]

Lightning, if you wish you can delete your duplicated posts, if you are logged in.

[amiso]

Hi,
  I was a turbo pascal / delphi programer for many years. I transferd to Linux few month ago after I decided that I had gone far enough with Microsoft! My first move was to buy Kylix.  I installed it on linux (kernel 2.4).   After I had to reboot my computer 40 times, I soon discovered that the "Save as" item does not work even with the "ASSUME KERNEL VERSION= ..." trick that they give you!.  I am not an expert but it seems to me that they did not rewrite the IDE but used an emulator or something. Finally when I installed the new  Linux version that uses the kernel 2.6, that was the end of kylix for me! It realy does not work.

   I have a great deal of admiration  for the people who invented TP/Delphi, but it seems to me that they have stoped working on it now. We can only hope that they will come with a good product in the future and Pascal will regain in popularity. They deserve it.

   Some of the features in Lazarus do not work yet, but there is nothing as sneaky as crashing the computer when you click on "save as"! The bugs and the parts of the code that are missing are easy to spot.  You usually do not fall in a trap more than two times.  The worst that can hapen is that you have to restart the application and you never lose your code.

   After having used Lazarus for only a few days, you realize that this a good software being developed by profesionals. I wish them the best luck.

[Lightning]

Kylix uses the QT libraries and some Wine libs so you are partially right, Kylix is somewhat emulated but i was able to use it so if you bought the software why don't you ask Borland.
The ideea is to have both Kylix and Lazarus on the same computer and slowly migrate to Lazarus.

[Anonymous]

The Kylix IDE uses winelib to emulate some aspects of the win32 api, but  the gednerated apps do not. Also there are some kylix patches that enable you to run kylix on modern distros. Kylix works for me, but i still check Lazarus from time to time just to see the progress.

[Anonymous]

Also one can not forget that you have to package a lot of libs with your app

[Lightning]

Well i don't use Kylix anymore so i'll let you guys try to fix commercial bugs, you pay for them, lol