The only thing holding me back to buy a subscription at the moment is the lack of lazarus/freepascal support for these components. I would love to see TMS Aurelius, Sparkle, Remote DB and XData to have this support.
These products rely on advanced Pascal language features (like generics/attributes) unfortunately not yet generally available with Lazarus/FPC. We are aware the Lazarus/FPC team works on this and when available, we'll re-evaluate support for Lazarus/FPC
Hello Wagner
How is the status for supporting Lazarus for the BIZ Components at the moment?
No further progress, unfortunately.
That's a pity, by the way, Lazarus now also supports generics.
I have a running RemoteDB deamon running on a Linux x86 system, I want to move that to the Raspberry. I talked to Bruno at the last EKON, he said I should do it with Lazarus, but if the BIZ components are not supported, it will probably be difficult. Do you have any idea how I could implement this?
It not only generics (which well, was introduced in Delphi 2010, kind of 13 years ago), but advanced RTTI, attributes, anonymous methods, record operators, among several other language features.
Yes I can understand it, it's hard enough to cover all the different Delphi versions. So I guess I'll have to wait until Delphi releases an ARM compiler. But that will probably take quite a while. :-(
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I guess RTTI is still the showstopper for a BIZ availability for Lazarus?
We haven't investigated it for some time already. Lack of time and actually interest from customers, it seems the demand for a FPC/Lazarus edition is low.
But answering your question, last time we checked was the lack of (or limited) support for advanced RTTI, anonymous methods, attributes and issues with code compatibility.
Hi Wagner, thanks for leting me know.
You can count me as +1 active customer for BIZ on Lazarus - actually it would be great to see all FNC and BIZ components/libraries for Lazarus, but I of course understand that this makes only sense if there are enough of your active customers wanting that.
I wish you a happy weekend.
Since the US is effing around with every country possible, I am sure that more europeans than just me are searching for options to get rid of or at least independent of us dependencies which sadly would include Delphi..
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