Re: 100% pure Win32 IDE

Nick Hodges (Borland/DTG) wrote:

Chee Wee Chua (Borland Support) wrote:

So easy that I had the same game, Digger, written in Delphi Win32
(VCL) and Delphi .NET (WinForms).

Yep -- it's one of the benefits of VCL.NET. If you want to have an
application work in both worlds, it can be easier to write it on the
.NET side, and then move it to Win32.

Nick,

While I definitely appreciate the benefits for people looking to port
existing code to .NET, that seems to me to be a one-way process.

Do you think there are many people who want to have two different
versions of exactly the same program targetting exactly the same PCs?

I can't for the life of me see why. If .NET offers benefits - it is a
rich framework, after all - then use it. If it doesn't, then don't. I
just don't understand the requirement to do both at the same time.
Apart from politics (such as satisfying terminally stupid PHBs who need
to tick the .NET box), are there any reasons to design/maintain a "dual
platform" system?

Ian
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