[Notes2-team] Leiam--> Bad, BAD news...

[Anderson R. B. <and...@po...>]

Ol=E1 noteiros,

tenho umas not=EDcias ruins a dar.

A) N=E3o houve reuni=E3o por falta de quorum, vergonhosa falta, devo dize=
r. S=F3
estavam eu, o Joelson e o Andrei. Me esforcei pra encontrar um hor=E1rio
em que todos pudessem participar e ningu=E9m apareceu... muito legal da p=
arte
de voc=EAs :(

B) O KYLIX MORREU!
Sim, a morte j=E1 estava mais ou menos anunciada, mas depois da confer=EA=
ncia
da Borland q ocorreu poucos dias atr=E1s, n=E3o restam mais d=FAvidas. A =
Borland
n=E3o disse oficalmente que pararia de vender o Kylix, mas disse que n=E3=
o=20
h=E1 nenhum
plano para qualquer tipo de atualiza=E7=E3o e que como o roadmap dos prod=
utos
deles est=E1 j=E1 fechado, eles naum v=E3o fazer nada em reala=E7=E3o ao =
kylix antes
de 2005 (n=E3o =E9 quatro, =E9 5 mesmo!). Quem ainda tem qualquer esperan=
=E7a,
d=EA uma olhada nos newsgroups da borland:=20
http://groups.google.com.br/groups?hl=3Dpt-BR&lr=3D&ie=3DUTF-8&oe=3Dutf-8=
&group=3Dborland.public.kylix.non-technical
Ou aqui: http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=3D122384005&eid=3D-50
ou ainda, infos da confer=EAncia, aqui:=20
http://newsgroups.borland.com/cgi-bin/dnewsweb?cmd=3Darticle&group=3Dborl=
and.public.delphi.non-technical&item=3D377809&utag=3D

O que vamos fazer agora???????? Usar o kylix mesmo assim?
Eu estou dando uma olhada no *lazarus*... http://www.lazarus.freepascal.o=
rg


      So just what is Lazarus?

Lazarus is the class libraries for Free Pascal that emulate Delphi. Free=20
Pascal is a GPL'ed compiler that runs on Linux, Win32, OS/2, 68K and=20
more. Free Pascal is designed to be able to understand and compile=20
Delphi syntax, which is of course OOP. Lazarus is the part of the=20
missing puzzle that will allow you to develop Delphi like programs in=20
all of the above platforms. Unlike Java which strives to be a write once=20
run anywhere, Lazarus and Free Pascal strives for write once compile=20
anywhere. Since the exact same compiler is available on all of the above=20
platforms it means you don't need to do any recoding to produce=20
identical products for different platforms.


      Yeah, but what about the GUI? What widget set are you using?

That is the neat part. You decide. Lazarus is being developed to be=20
totally and completely API independent. Once you write your code you=20
just link it against the API widget set of your choice. If you want to=20
use GTK+, great! If you want it to be Gnome compliant, great! As long as=20
the interface code for the widget set you want to use is available you=20
can link to it. If it isn't available, well you can write it.

For example. Let's say you are creating a product on Windows using the=20
standard Windows widgets. Now you want to create a Linux version. First=20
you decide what widget set you want to use. Let's assume you want to use=20
gtk+. So you copy the code over to your Linux development machine,=20
compile, and link against the gtk+ interface unit. That's it. You've now=20
just created a Linux version of the Windows product without any=20
additional coding.

At this point in the development we are using gtk+ as our initial API=20
widget set. Some work is also being done with Qt and the Win32 API. As=20
soon as Lazarus reaches a 1.0 release developers will be able to start=20
to create the interface unit to tie the LCL (Lazarus Class Libraries) to=20
other widget sets.


      So is this thing really RAD like Delphi?

It sure is. Is it totally completed? No not yet. The forms design=20
portion is still in need of a great deal of development. The over all=20
IDE is complete and can be used for most programming needs. Several=20
aspects of the project are still in need of help. Hint. Hint.


      Can I use my existing Delphi code?

Some of it yes. If the code is standard Delphi pascal and it uses the=20
standard components found in Delphi then the answer is yes. If it uses=20
some specific database, OCX, or DCU then the answer would be no. These=20
items are specific to Windows and would only work on and within Windows.=20
However, if you are only looking to create a Windows product using Free=20
Pascal and Lazarus then the answer would be yes. This hasn't been added=20
to the LCL yet but it should be possible in the future.



Quem quiser baixar:
ftp://ftp.us.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/fpcsrc-1.1-laz.20021225.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.us.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/fpc-1.1-laz.20021225.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.us.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/lazarus-0.8.5.3-fpc_1.1_laz.20021=
225.i386.rpm

Temos que pensar bem no que faremos...

Ab.
Anderson