[fpc-pascal] Re: Porting Discussion

[Jonas Maebe]

On 24 Jun 2008, at 14:18, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> If the devels targeting Mac with portable suites were so Mac centric  
> and
> perfectionist as described in this thread, they would go the Apple  
> prefered way,
> and invest massively in some ObjC solution, to not miss some word of  
> mouth
> or a pat on the shoulder from Apple and/or partners.

Even several Mac-only developers do not do this because they have too  
much investments in existing code and skills. And they can make  
perfectly fine apps.

> So apparantly the porters are (in general) are not putting the Mac  
> central
> to their world, so trying to force them to is useless.

Nobody has asked for this. But flooding the Mac market with  
quick&dirty Windows ports is going to be as commercially successful as  
Kylix was on Linux, no matter how "demented" your targeted Mac users  
may be (and those will probably the only Mac users you'll ever have in  
that case).


Jonas