[DUG] Free Pascal

[Jeremy Coulter]

"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."  Except it comes from the ugly side of the
family....hehehe....

 

Jeremy

 

From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Paul A Norman
Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 00:04
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Free Pascal

 

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


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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.
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