[DUG] Delphi on Linux

[Neven MacEwan]

Rob

There is nothing 'simple' about it (have you written a cross platform 
COM engine?), also evidently there are huge websites out there running 
interpreted php (no kidding), actually the actual programming in most 
apps is very simple (my app framework in delphi does most forms in less 
than 100 lines) though a lot of people turn up there noses at 
intrepreted(sp) apps they can be hugely effective (and faster than 
compiled ones), XUL appears to be a very effective cross platofrm ui

Neven

Rob van der Linde wrote:
> Firefox and Thunderbird are written in Javascript (no kidding), and the
> UI is done with XUL. The whole thing simply runs on an "engine" called
> Gecko, which handles (X)HTML, XUL, CSS, Javascript, etc.
> 
> Mozilla have a separate project going called XULRunner as I recall,
> which is able to run XUL/Javascript apps without Firefox, but I am not
> sure how complete XULRunner is.
> 
> For now, you should be able to still run XUL apps from the local HDD if
> Firefox is called using command line switches.
> 
> On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 10:51 +1200, Neven MacEwan wrote:
>> Wayne
>>
>> Are you looking as LTSP or NoMachine, both purport to support Wine.
>>
>> My strategy for reducing dependence on M$ is to dismantle the spider-web 
>> of hooks they have into users (to mangle a number of analogies), The 
>> Linux (or pure LTSP) desktop is the long term target, not the immediate 
>> one. First you have to get the windows apps out of the way (or at very 
>> least minimse it), get your users on Firefox & Thunderbird (get rid of 
>> IE and Outlook), if you can then get Open Office in the frame you are in 
>> the clear. Otherwise you will be always fighting a losing battle.
>>
>> All these posts about Kylix make me think that maybe we should look at 
>> Firefox (& TB) as the most successful cross platform apps, ie Mozilla 
>> based. And what does that toolkit do right?
>>
>> Neven
>>
>> Wayne Roser wrote:
>>> Instead of compiling for Linux, our IT dept is trying to get a bunch of windows programs running on
>>> a linux server using WINE so that we can get free terminal services without buying the microsoft
>>> product. Some of the software is written in Delphi (by me) and some we buy from elsewhere. 
>>>
>>> Has anyone done this sort of thing? 
>>>
>>> "Free" terminal services seems to be pretty labour expensive.
>>>
>>> This might be off-list. If so, please email me similarly. Thanks.
>>>
>>> Wayne Roser
>>> Kristin School
>>>
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