[fpc-pascal] opendelphi.org

[Marco van de Voort]

> > What he meant is that supporting fpc/lazarus development
> > is a quite more tangible task than trying to buy and support delphi.
> 
> No, he said "Why don't they switch to and support FPC/Lazarus instead of
> doing that?". Tha is a large dig at Delphi.

Correct.

>  Until FPD is completely
> compatible with Delphi 5 onwards (completely) including full VCL, it's
> useless to me under Windows...

There are more people than  you :_)

For me (and I mean that with my fulltime Delphi programmer hat on), full
compability would be a bad thing.

Compability is a beast that means for every time the gap gets ten times
smaller (90% - 99% - 99.9% etc), the work to close that gap also get ten
times as much, and the limitations get worse ( e.g. crossplatform libs turn
into windows or Linux/x86-2.4.x-as-in-kylix emulations).

At a certain point the work can be better invested in expanding the tool
than in more compat.