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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=856174608-16092008>Hi
Gary,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=856174608-16092008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=856174608-16092008>It was
an interesting article.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=856174608-16092008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=856174608-16092008>All
sounds very promising. Maybe if we wait a bit more time, everything will
be OK to port over to Linux without problem.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=856174608-16092008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=856174608-16092008>Cheers,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=856174608-16092008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=856174608-16092008>Edward</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=856174608-16092008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=856174608-16092008> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Gary T. Benner
[mailto:gary@benner.co.nz]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, 16 September 2008
08:31<BR><B>To:</B> edwardh@slingshot.co.nz<BR><B>Cc:</B>
delphi@delphi.org.nz<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [DUG] Porting Delphi code to
Linux<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN style="COLOR: #000000">HI
Edward,</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN style="COLOR: #000000">Check
out what Codeweavers did for Google Chrome - in 7 days.</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #000000">http://www.codeweavers.com/about/people/blogs/jwhite/2008/9/15/fire-drills-and-proving-a-point</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #000000">cheers</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #000000">Gary</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #000000">A</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #ff0000"><B>t 19:16 on
15/09/2008 you wrote </B></SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>To : delphi@delphi.org.nz</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>CC : </SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>From: Edward Huang,
edwardh@slingshot.co.nz</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>Content Type: text/plain</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>Attached: </SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">></SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>Hi,</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">></SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN style="COLOR: #008000">>I
have been asked the posibility to convert our Delphi code to run on
Linux.</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN style="COLOR: #008000">>I
don't really have any experience on Linux, but I'm sure someone would
be</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>able to help here.</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">></SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>We have a bunch of Delphi applications, Win32, all
Client/server structure,</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>Windows GUI, no data-aware controls, access DB via
ADO, primarily standard</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>VCL controls, with one 3rd party Grid components
used extensively, plus a</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>(very) few of other 3rd party
components.</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">></SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>As it's only a posibility discussion, there's no
timeframe or such, and</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>don't have to rely on the current versions of any
products, i.e. if any</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>future product versions on the roadmap that can
help, it can be option too.</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">></SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN style="COLOR: #008000">>I
know there was Kylix, but I understood that the GUI components are
quite</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>different, and was many years ago.</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">></SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>So is there any practical options that I can
choose? Or I have to start</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>from scratch again?</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">></SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>TIA.</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">></SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">>Edward Huang</SPAN></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #008000">></SPAN></SPAN>
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