> Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > > beating Borland to the punch by about 7 years. FPC could have > > attracted and converted more Delphi developers... > > Compatibility is the only way to attract Delphi developers. Just > consider the kcl/fpgui vs. lcl case: kcl/fpgui started before the lcl > and was much more advanced regarding the design than e.g. the vcl. > Nobody except Sebastian and years later you were interested in it. > People used the lcl. The MSE is fully unicode. How much people use it > and contribute? Without Martin, MSE would be dead.
Agree fully. Also note that a lot of the delphi projects out there support LCL, not MSEGUI (or if so, it is way behind). There is a huge difference between finding something intellectually interesting (e.g. many people are instinctly attracted to from scratch purposes), and committing any really major time to it. Because then the real world comes crashing in. As for threading support, people (also in non-tech) drone on about this like chickens without heads, fed by multicore marketing offensive. However there is next to zero original thought. Users can't even seem to agree if the result should be focused on ease of use or maximum performance. Some people even drag in CUDA support etc. Read this and the reactions, and weep: http://groups.google.com/group/borland.public.delphi.non-technical/browse_frm/thread/db61d19063a2f948/289008199451755a?lnk=gst&q=voort+multicore#289008199451755a _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel