[DUG] Free Pascal

[Paul A Norman]

I sucessfully got I think a  simple trial going on Lazarus under Win32 a
year ago, then simply recompiled it under a Linux distro and it worked
out of the box! I did not have the opening to try it under Mac.

I really really love that concept - isn't the Delphi roadmap promising
something similar?

It does not feel as smooth as Delphi at all - but I like the way it has
grown since I last looked.  I know what you mean "I didn't like the Lazarus
IDE much " it looks the same sometimes but does not "feel" the same when you
go to do things - but then it is different any way.
I like the standard set of controls, quite advanced from what I actually
expected, and it looks like they've had native MySql and PostGres support
quite early on.

Its sort of like a counsin you've never met before, who was bought up
differently to yourself, acts a bit differently, but has a family
resembelance none the less.

Paul

2009/9/24 Jeremy Coulter <jscoulter at gmail.com>

> I looked at Lazarus for writing some stuff for Linux, but in the end, I
> stuck with CrossKylix. I didn't like the Lazarus IDE much and the exe size
> for simple app, and I mean simple, was just crazy.
> Yeah, I used UPXG for Linux to solve it a little, but the one think I like
> about CrossKylix is that it runs un Delphi so you have a familiar IDE.
> If I want to write a Mac app. I can just use Mono now.
>
> Jeremy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
> On
> Behalf Of Todd Martin
> Sent: Thursday, 24 September 2009 14:22
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: [DUG] Free Pascal
>
> Hi Jolyon
>
> One thing I dislike about Lazarus, is the lack of visual form
> inheritance. The FreePascal compiler itself, seems perfectly ok.
>
> Todd.
>
> > For the uninitiated:  A FreePascal license costs $0. Annual upgrades
> > cost a further $0 per annum for minor updates and $0 for major updates.
> > Source code for the compiler, as well as the runtime libraries etc, is
> > available at a further cost of $0.
> >
> >
> >
> > J
> >
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