[DUG] iPhone

[Alister Christie]

Commodore (D2010 or 11) is said be interesting because this will need to 
be a cross platform compiler (compiles 32 or 64 bit).  Depending on how 
they do this we may start to see other platform targets (Native 
PocketPC, OS/X , Linux etc.) being compiled from the Win32 compiler - at 
least there have been hints in this direction.

I guess they must have a separate compiler for .net.

Alister Christie
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David Brennan wrote:
> 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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