Linux, OSX and other support
joostvdl
Windows. For Linux now there is a way of using Wine, but why don;t you
go the way of .NET
As I believe there is also a way of using Delphi with .NET and on Linux
and OSX .NET is supported via MONO.
That way there is a full platformsupport.
Andrew Higgs
Nikhil
I read through this whole thread and so far my understanding is as follows:
- There is a plan to use WINE, in the interim, to get TC working on
Linux.
- FireBird will replace BDE soon. This will probably the first step
towards making TC truly open source and also enabling it to be easily ported
across to other platforms like Linux.
Good luck to all those brave souls who are trying to get TC working on Linux
using WINE! It will be a tremendous achievement if it can be done.
I am interested in getting TC onto Linux and I don't understand anything
about accounting :). Currently, Is there a roadmap on how to go about this
Linux port? I looked at the Wiki pages too but didn't find much on those
pages.
If the current TC users who are running it on M$ shouldn't be affected by
this porting exercise, then it means that we need to fork off the source
tree and start afresh on Linux. But in the long run, I presume that we would
want to have a single source code base for all operating systems. This means
that we need to have a Database Engine that is multi-platform and also,
preferably the UI should be multi-platform too. I am speaking about only the
desktop-based-thick-client version. The UI could be based on various cross
platform toolkits like Qt, OpenMotif (there will soon be a working version
of this on M$ too :) ). Of course, if you want the client-server model then
for the web-based UI, we can use PHP,Java and a lot of other stuff.
Please let me know how I can contribute to this effort and also is there any
documentation (specs) regarding the architecture of TC, design etc.
-Nikhil