[fpc-pascal] Re: Free Pascal widget set

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, Cesar Romero wrote:

> Why not wxWidgets?
> Linux map to GTK - GTK 2.0 alread done
> Windows to Native widget set
> Mac to Cocoa
>
> Serious, I still dont undertande why not, is a licence issue?

Because no-one has started it yet.

And on Linux, I think it would be a very bad choice indeed:

- LCL
- Pascal import (wxWidgets is C++, and cannot be used directly)
- wxWidgets
- GTK
- X11

That is 4 libraries on top of X !

Graeme's stuff is directly on top of X, which means 3 libraries less.
- Faster.
- Less resource usage.
- No workarounds for different quircks of different libraries

Michael.