[fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users
Ștefan-Iulian Alecu
overanalytcl at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 15:57:55 CEST 2024
> One of the highest-project single Kylix (Delphi for Linux) projects I
> ever saw languishes in unmaintained obscurity: XPde.
I tried to compile it using Free Pascal and fix it, however I am
constantly stuck with all the Kylix-specific parts. I even tried
installing actual Kylix just to see if it was my fault, but that's
apparently notoriously hard to install on modern distros, so I gave up.
I think it needs a rewrite, at least a partial one. I don't know how
good Kylix compatibility is, but I don't have much faith as is. Also, a
lot of apps seem to be lost to time, so if someone dares to embark on
this journey, they'd have to remake said apps, at which point you could
just rewrite everything and possibly port it to FP or move away from X11
to Wayland.
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Ștefan-Iulian Alecu
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