From: "Jonas Maebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Since I testing FPC and Lazarus, I'm intersting in using it. > > However, FPC and Lazarus currently cannot be competition > > to Delphi/Kylix. But the most important advantages are daily > > updates and upgrades and we hope it > > will become worthy competitor one day. > > You forgot to add "for my environment and purpose" at the end of that > last sentence.
FPC and Lazarus are currently not sutable as a main tool RAD (at least on Winodows). If you have Delphi (7) Studio licensed RAD and developing commercial applications, you have seen real RAD tool in action: Advantage of Delphi: 1. User friendly IDE 2. Dynamicaly using components from IDE 3. Incorporated debugger (requre no currently large executable with symbols) 4. Optimized building performace Advantage of FPC and Lazarus: 1. Daily updates and upgrades 2. Cross platform support 3. Code optimization for targeted processor (main delphi disadvantage on Intel compatible processors) 4. Easier (C like) pointer manipulation 5. C like operators support Code translation problem (Delphi to Lazarus): 1. Rudimentar files translation - require too many manul changes on each file to change basic units and resources 2. Code incompatibilty in some cases (one of it is #4922) 3. Basic component incompatibility 4. Unclear/unsoported full Unicode (UTF-16) component support It is far from that however, that Delphi is bugfree product, but currently regarding translation problems, disadvantage of Lazarus IDE and some incomaptibility/bugs in both, these advantages are not enough to set FPC and Lazarus as a main RAD, at least on Windows which is still the most used OS for global puposes. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
