Re: Delphi strategy against Lazarus

Rod wrote:
There is much noise in the Lazarus group in recent days. Since Lazarus 0.9.25 and FPC 2.2 are out. I get 100 or 200 mails per day, before maybe 40 or 50. The new IDE looks very professional. The compiler is very feature rich. I guess it is just a question of time Lazarus would be ahead of Delphi.

What is the strategy of CG for Delphi?

One of my real complaints about FPC and Lazarus, is how difficult it is to get it working properly; especially true when attempting to do updates.

My question is, why don't they take the time to make both available through apt-get and yum? For modern Linux or Open Solaris based application installation, it is very short sided that they do not offer these typical install options. I am also willing to bet, that if they did make FPC and Lazarus part of the standard repositories for Red Hat based repos and Debian based distros as well, it would attract much more attention.

I think FPC is very good for Object Pascal (aka Delphi language) and is a viable solution for native Linux, Windows, and Mac based development (not so great for Mac right now, bu improving). But it is a royal pain to set up. Once you get it working it works well enough. But Lazarus is no where near as polished as Delphi IDE.

What I normally do is run Delphi under Wine and then build my FPC apps from the command line. The Delphi IDE is so much better and 10 times more stable, than the Lazarus IDE.
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