-----Original Message----- From: ros-general-bounces@reactos.com [mailto:ros-general-bounces@reactos.com] On Behalf Of Jan Tisje Sent: 23. marts 2004 11:07 To: ros-general@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