Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:26:58 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD at COMDEX Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991122181712.04729990@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19991122163813.39441@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19991120090553.0463a200@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19991120090553.0463a200@localhost>
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At 04:38 PM 11/22/1999 -0500, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Saturday, 20 November 1999 at 10:34:52 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > > FreeBSD got a small, but not insignificant, amount of attention. Red Hat > > CEO Robert Young even mentioned it in his keynote -- a pleasant surprise. > >Interesting. I wonder why. What did he say? He mentioned it in passing, early in the speech. See http://play.rbn.com/?url=zd/pcweek/g2demand/webcast/comdexfall99/key_111599b.rm&proto=rtsp > > The reps from Borland/Inprise -- whose booth was directly across from > > Walnut Creek's -- told me that they now had a Linux command-line compiler > > for Borland Pascal/Delphi. (This is a fantastic Pascal dialect which I'd > > love to use for UNIX projects. The GPLed "Free Pascal" simply can't compete > > in terms of code quality.) Unfortunately, despite the fact that recompiling > > and relinking a command-line compiler for BSD is nearly trivial, their PR > > people claimed that they weren't considering an implementation for FreeBSD. > > (This sounds like a company that's ripe for a bit of advocacy; there is NO > > reason why there should not be Delphi compilers for ALL of the BSDs.) > >On the other hand, this should run out of the box. Why ask them to do >unnecessary work? Because it will produce non-native binaries that are dependent upon Linux libraries and emulation. If a user does not have these installed, the code generated by the compiler will not run. Also, APIs that access unique features of the FreeBSD architecture -- e.g. CAM -- won't be there. One of the reasons I use FreeBSD is that I do not wish any of my work to be dependent upon GPLed code. I certainly don't want to use a compiler that forces me into such a dependency! --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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