[fpc-devel] PR: Advocates needed

[Vincent Snijders]

Bisma Jayadi wrote:
>  > It's not the advocacy that is needed but rather they need code for it
>  > to work. It says right in the article.
> 
> I think we should stop the VB vs Pascal discussion now. It's useless 
> since we all here already know which is the winner. Even Alex himself 
> had already knew about this, no need to convince him more.
> 
> So, let's back to the main topic that had started this thread: The 
> TurboCash Delphi-to-FPC convertion project. Let's do some (real) 
> actions! First, somebody has to convince the TurboCash guys over there 
> that FPC/Lazarus is the best alternative compiler and IDE to make 
> TurboCash compiled and run natively on Linux (and other platforms as 
> well). But don't make Python look bad... good Pascal guys don't like to 
> say bad things about other programming languages. Just list the 
> advantages of FPC/Lazarus over Python, regarding to this project.
> 
> Second, some other person has to do some PR things on this issue. This 
> could be done on FreshMeat or NewsForge or any open-source news media 
> that had published this issue before. Convince other people that 
> FPC/Lazarus can do the work, even it's the best alternative.
> 
> The last and the most important is... make a developer team who will do 
> the convertion work. There are LOTS of things need to be done since 
> TurboCash is very Delphi and win32 specific application.

Thanks for this insight.

I believe indeed that FPC/Lazarus is a superior technological solution, 
being a compiled language and having a good IDE.

Porting Delphi code to FPC/Lazarus is easier than porting it to Python.

OTOH, Python might have its strong points too (I am not sure how true 
these are). Maybe there are much more 'components' available for Python.

I also think there are more Python developers on linux, than FPC/Lazarus 
developers. This is an important factor, if you want the 'community' do 
a large part of the port.

Vincent