[fpc-devel] Russian locale information not compatible with FPC locale variables

[Marco van de Voort]

> Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> > beating Borland to the punch by about 7 years.  FPC could have
> > attracted and converted more Delphi developers...
> 
> Compatibility is the only way to attract Delphi developers. Just 
> consider the kcl/fpgui vs. lcl case: kcl/fpgui started before the lcl 
> and was much more advanced regarding the design than e.g. the vcl. 
> Nobody except Sebastian and years later you were interested in it. 
> People used the lcl. The MSE is fully unicode. How much people use it 
> and contribute? Without Martin, MSE would be dead.

Agree fully. Also note that a lot of the delphi projects out there support
LCL, not MSEGUI (or if so, it is way behind). 

There is a huge difference between finding something intellectually
interesting (e.g. many people are instinctly attracted to from scratch
purposes), and committing any really major time to it. Because then the real
world comes crashing in.

As for threading support, people (also in non-tech) drone on about this
like chickens without heads, fed by multicore marketing offensive. However
there is next to zero original thought. Users can't even seem to agree if
the result should be focused on ease of use or maximum performance. Some
people even drag in CUDA support etc.

Read this and the reactions, and weep:

http://groups.google.com/group/borland.public.delphi.non-technical/browse_frm/thread/db61d19063a2f948/289008199451755a?lnk=gst&q=voort+multicore#289008199451755a