how do I build a minimal 'hello world' CGI application under Free Pascal ?
Where do I find 'instructions for dummies' ? Peppe 2010/5/2 Lee Jenkins <l...@datatrakpos.com>: > Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >> >> On 2 May 2010 17:17, Marcos Douglas <m...@delfire.net> wrote: >>> >>> I need to rewrite a Desktop app, coded in Delphi 7, to Web. The >>> options: PHP, Java, C# and Pascal. For me, FreePascal would be a good >> >> Some reasons: >> * Free Pascal is open source (always available and no vendor lock-in) >> * Free Pascal is free, so can always use latest version at NO cost. >> * Previous skills from Delphi 7 project can be reused. No need to retrain >> developers. Saving 1000's in cost. >> * Previous business domain code can be reused. Saving hundreds of hours >> in development time. >> * No runtime or VM is required to run apps (unlike PHP, C# or Java). >> * Development tools are free and again open source. >> > > * Virtual Private Hosting is really cheap now, largely alleviating the > problem of deploying native executables to web servers like FastCGI, ISAPI, > apache_mod, etc. > > >>> Exists a project open source, in Pascal, here in Brazil. It's call >>> ExtPascal <http://code.google.com/p/extpascal/>. This is a project to >>> code Web apps. It use ExtJS for client and Pascal for server. >> >> I know of many developers or companies using ExtPascal to write web >> apps. I unfortunately have not looked at it yet. I started our CGI >> apps long before I found out about ExtPascal. >> >> > > I am working on a project now for RIA similar in concept to ExtPascal, but > abstracting out the UI framework with most of the logic executing on the > server so that I can plug in different UI's without touching my > model/controller. > > I was about 90% finished with the Flex UI layer when the customer whose site > I'm writing, got spooked by all the Apple/Adobe/HTML5 debate that has heated > up and became adamant about not using flash based UI, limiting Flash to > playing video where necesary and using DHMTL for client UI. > > So I'm taking advantage of the extra time and refactoring the framework a > bit and implementing a DHTML UI layer now. We looked at ExtJS as well as > YahooUI, OpenLaszlo and a few of the others and eventually decided on Dojo > javascript tookit, but different UI layers can be plugged in. Heck, even an > LCL or fpGUI layer is feasible. > > -- > Warm Regards, > > Lee > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pas...@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal