Fwd: WLUG - Borland Kylix
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: WLUG - Borland Kylix Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:53:15 -0400 From: "Al Reinhart" <reinhart@discom.com> To: <astewart@world.std.com> Andy, Thought some of the members in the user group might be interested in the following: Borland announces a 90-day limited time offer to purchase the Desktop edition of Borland® Kylix(TM), its award-winning Linux® application development and deployment product for $199. Timed with the launch of "Kylix-Compatible" Borland® Delphi(TM) 6, the promotion is designed to address the demand for Windows/Linux cross-platform application development and deployment... (http://www.borland.com/about/press/2001/kylix_promo.html) Al ------------------------------------------ Al Reinhart Phone: (508) 869-6417 DisCom Systems Fax: (508) 869-3420 www.DisCom.com ------------------------------------------------------- -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org
My copy came in Wednesday :) Here's my first impressions: It's a typicall x.0 release, a bit too buggy. The install crashed on me, and I had to visit the borland website to get it working. It requires glibc 2.2 which my mandrake box didn't have, and let me point out an important fact that I didn't realize... a glibc 2.1 -> 2.2 upgrade is not a trivial thing. Oh... and it doesn't work with the newest version of the mySql client libs. I've known borland for a while, and I bet the first update for it is already being written. Now that's all the bad I have for it so far, on to the good. It is delphi! I sit and work on it, and except for the window decorations and weird mouse focus rules, it behaves exactly like delphi! On my 700mhz laptop it runs nice and zippy. The applications it produces are truly native linux apps. Their run time libraries came dual-licensed in both comercial and GPL format, so you can distribute them with your Free or non-Free apps. So here's my overall review: If they fix the bugs mentioned above, we will soon have a first class development environment. I would hope this would lead to more apps, and a more wide spread acceptance of linux. I'm guessing it's a Good Thing. Now... where are all those kylix jobs I've been waiting for :) -Marc On Friday 01 June 2001 18:28, you wrote:
On a side note, I wanted to point out that since just about _everything_ is built against glibc, upgrading glibc would require upgrading pretty much one's entire installation, at which point you're probably a lot better off just backing up and doing a fresh install. On another side note, I also wanted to point out that Mandrake 8.0 is built on glibc 2.2 and is pretty sweet. =) -b
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