On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 12:38:39PM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Elsewhere, somebody's posted this: > > "But we already own Delphi XE2. My understanding is that Lazarus is > still clunky compared with Delf at basic IDE-and-forms stuff; Lazarus > doesn't support key familiar libraries that we rely on to slap together > the basic elements (Jedi, Virtual Treeview, <cough> Quickreport...), so > Laz's connectivity to MySQL doesn't really enter into the equation." > > Can anybody comment on the extent to which this is still fair comment, > so that I can feed *accurate* facts back?
As far as I know - Indy works. Except maybe on WinCE (unconfirmed) - Zeos works - Synapse works - dcpcrypt works - tcomport works - many turbopower components work. - VST is in Lazarus-CCR, but an older v4 version. VST porting is hindered by not accepting changes (like a sane IFDEF system) upstream, which makes every port an one off change. - Jedi is too vague. Probably they mean JVCL, but it is a very large mix of packages and functionality. Some of which is horribly OS specific or worse (like the traceback stuff relying on Embarcadero's debugformat). Parts of JVCL have been ported (CCR), and I have compiled large parts of the Jedi JCL. There is also a lot of duplicate functionality (relative to packages in there). paid stuff - Fastreport has a Lazarus version. - teechar With a bit of good will, a lot can be done. But don't try to convince people that don't have a strong motivation (like a desire to be multiplatform). It is usually a waste of time, and it only forces their defenses up. In time probably we will have to do what code typhon tries to do and at least start adding a handful of crucial components (like the free stuff above). But in a more transparent an less ad-hoc manor than CT. Quality, not quantity. This will probably make it easier to communicate with upstream. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus