On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > > > At my company, we still have a huge number of clients running Windows > > 95, who protest loudly when we even _suggest_ upgrading. > > > > Which is not to say that we should not look at a .NET port of FPC, but > > this is not very high on the priority list. After all, .NET offers no > > advantages by itself. > > IMHO it would be better to start over legacy free for .NET and really target > the .NET/JVM/LLVM platform 100%. > > I think that single source combinations are already all gone by the time we > would enter production with a .NET port. And even if, a single source system > would put a break too much on the mutual development. So you would go the VB way: VB.NET completely broke existing VB code. The advantage of Delphi was exactly that it offered a transition path... I don't consider that wise. What is more, we don't have the manpower to maintain 2 source systems. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
