Is there a Kylix 4 in the works?
Gaulider
realm of things, and Delphi meanwhile has changed two versions.
In addition, the Borland Website doesn't seem too enthused about pushing
Kylix, which is a shame.
Does anyone know if there is any plans in the works to develop a new
version of Kylix -- either that or upgrade it so it can work with versions
of glibc past version 2.3.4?
Paul King
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Levend Sener
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> Looks to me as though there hasn't been a lot of activity in the Kylix
> realm of things, and Delphi meanwhile has changed two versions.
>
> In addition, the Borland Website doesn't seem too enthused about pushing
> Kylix, which is a shame.
>
> Does anyone know if there is any plans in the works to develop a new
> version of Kylix -- either that or upgrade it so it can work with versions
> of glibc past version 2.3.4?
>
> Paul King
Paul,
I think that we can safely assume that rather hell will freeze before we'll
see a new Kylix version :-(
It might be a shame that Borland lets Kylix die slowly&silently but OTOH
Kylix has never been a commercial success for Borland - ok, let's not
discuss about it's maturity and why it failed to become a success ...
Levend.
Tom
Hi,
The cause that Kylix haven't been a success lies in the fact
that Kylix is compiled by native code compilers which are
dependent of one version of the kernel, glibc and/or compiler
set. The Linux Kernel, GLibc and the compiler set are
developing on a revolutionary base. There are frequent master
upgrades which will definitely break compatibility with Kylix.
This problem is not the specific Kylix/Linux problem, but it's
a .so compatibility problem. This is exactly the same problem
that Windows programmers face as known as the .DLL Hell.
Although I still use SuSE 7.3 for Kylix, it runs flawlessly, I
have also the latest Java SDK versioned 1.5.0_05 without any
problem. Netbeans 4.1 and JBuilder run on this computer with
great performance. This means that Java is platform neutral and
that's very good!
Java is so mature, that it's an excellent platform for a new
version of Kylix and/or Interbase. No more shared library
sorrow. No more crashes, but instead of them meaningful
exception messages pointing to the exact location of the
problem, so bugs will be easily ironed out.
Thanks to the JIT compiler technology performance won't be an
issue.
.NET and Mono also are very interesting, but I find it too
early foor evaluating it on Linux, since Monodevelop still has
some naughty bugs. .NET on microsoft gives me great results
including Delphi 2005 for .NET programming.
I'd like to see Kylix in the Java or Mono platform. But if
Borland doesn't upgrade Kylix, I give everyone the advice of
using JBuilder which is platform neutral and feature-rich!
Greetings from a platform neutral future,
Tom