Re: Do you have a Road Map?



Brian Moelk wrote:
>
> >> I don't blame Borland either. But you admit there is a risk there.
> >>
> > No more so than using VS and writing C# code.
>
> If I had a problem or some kind of inconsistency using C#, I can go to Borland,
> MS and/or Mono to ask for help. Every one of them would help me on some
> level. With Delphi for .NET I have to ask Borland, and if I had a problem
> with mono, I suspect Borland's response will be "Delphi for .NET doesn't
> support mono".
>

Why would Borland respond like that and MS would not? You really think that MS
would give you help on Mono when mono competes with a product they sell (which
is the OS)?

> IMO, there is more risk there.

No more than using MS's C# in VS.

>
> >> So if
> >> I'm interested in using mono, regardless of complete spec compliance,
> >> there
> >> is a risk using Delphi for .NET vs. C#. That's the bottom line.
> > No there isn't. Both emit IL. The Mono implementation does not
> > support all the IL spec so both can fail and probably would with
> > similar coding aspects.
>
> Well, you can believe that I'm wrong about this, but I see more risk using
> Delphi for .NET on mono, than using C#.

Only because you don't seem to understand how .NET is supposed to work and whose
responsibility it is on each side of the implementation.


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