[fpc-pascal] opendelphi.org

[Marco van de Voort]

> > http://delphi.org/
> >
> > Very nice attempts, but -IMO- they're just wasting their time. :p
> > Why don't they switch to and support FPC/Lazarus instead of doing that? :p
> 
> You're kidding me right? Maybe if you made that assertion about Kylix, but
> not Delphi!! The Delphi.Net compiler alone, and the VCL (full VCL), and
> defacto support for all (not just a subset) of Delphi features

However only the time to get anything building of that codebase is probably
a horrible task. It is written to be operated by an horde of fulltime
programmers + QA department.

The whole idea that OSS programmers can take over this is IMHO nuts.
Specially now the number of serious delphi devels are dwindling, and since
they always had a no-nonsense mentality.

See how many devels FPC has. That is the same magnitude you can get for Open
Delphi. At best, and part-time. And these are battle hardened veterans for a
decade and longer. A newly formed OSS team would take at least 1,2 years to
even do a maintainance release, at besxt.

See e.g. how long it took for Mozilla to become releaseworthy.