[DUG] iPhone

[David Brennan]

Yes... BUT!

But there is no point doing it the way they did Kylix. If we have to
completely rewrite my application to use a whole new visual component
library then we just won't do it!

What would be the killer application is taking their current VCL and making
mapping layers underneath it which allowed applications developed for the
Windows VCL to also run on Linux or OSX. I don't underestimate the
difficulty of this - it would be very hard which might be why they haven't
tried. But so long as they have one VCL for Windows, and another for Linux
(and maybe a 3rd for OSX?) they're limiting their appeal to purely new
projects. And if I was going to start from scratch and needed to target
Linux and OSX then Java already owns that market so I think they are on a
hiding to nowhere there.

It isn't true cross platform if you have two (or more) different VCLs!



-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Todd Martin
Sent: Monday, 1 September 2008 11:17 a.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] iPhone

Hmmm. I'm inclined to agree with this.
Having spent a lot of time lately compiling and installing open source 
engineering applications on Linux, and hating C++ for every minute of it 
(don't even get me started on Python), I can't help but think 
Embarcadero could exploit a huge opportunity by offering an open-source 
cross-platform compiler while focusing their commercial efforts on a 
(drag and drop component) plugin for Eclipse and VCL extensions.

Just my 2c.

Todd.
>
> However - and I keep wishing for this - is Embarcadero or anyone working
on 
> a version of Delphi for OSX?   Now that would be make Delphi a  killer 
> language.  Especially if they reawakened Kylix too.  As far as I can see 
> there are few really developed cross platform GUI languages - the main
ones 
> seem to be QT,  XUL-Runner (Firefox and Thunderbird), some based on
Open-GL, 
> and browser based GUI's which all the comments are a pain to program in 
> compared to say Delphi.
>
>   
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