[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.

-- 
Ștefan-Iulian Alecu



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