[ros-general] to delphi or not to delphi (was: filemanager)

[Casper Hornstrup]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-general-bounces at reactos.com 
> [mailto:ros-general-bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of Jan Tisje
> Sent: 23. marts 2004 11:07
> To: ros-general at reactos.com
> Subject: Re: [ros-general] to delphi or not to delphi (was: 
> filemanager)
> 
> 
> > Well, by using delphi your working against the OSS 
> character of ROS, 
> > that is, it couldn't be used in the ROS project. There's no 
> OSS Delphi 
> > compiler, and there are legal problems with delphi as well 
> (see XPDE).
> > And as last point, afaik Delph isn't crossplatform.
> 
> You do not know anything about Delphi. ;-)
> 
> It actually is (limited) crossplatform, as there is an 
> implementation for linux named Kylix.

You have to balance a few developers wanting to contribute Delphi
source code and all future ReactOS developers needing to spend the extra
time to setup a development environment capable of compiling Delpi source
code. ReactOS currently depend on a minimum of tools and thats the way
it should be IMHO. For a simple test, try seeing how long it will take
you to setup an environment that is capable of building gcc which has
many dependencies.

Casper