Hi,

This is from the borland NG, cppbuilder.non-technical, reliablity = 0% ;). Especially, the second and third paragraph could maybe cheer up some.

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I just remember another point he made: He is underwhelmed by Qt and sees it as buggy. He thinks its set of controls are sparse and for his own Linux port he wrote replacement controls for a lot of what Qt does. He thinks CLX is unfinished too.

I asked him if he thought Borland could write a port of VCL to Linux and he said sure. From his own experience writing pieces of stuff that replaced CLX/Qt pieces he didn't think it was a huge job. He agreed that it would have been far better to do so since Windows is the main platform and lots of existing source code was written to VCL.

I wonder what the market would be like for a VCL clone for Linux/Unix. Maybe Borland would buy it if someone wrote one. Look, if VCL is going to be around and used for years to come then there will be a lot of people wanting to easily port their VCL apps to Linux.

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Regards,

Micha.