Frederick,

<< I would also like if EWB will be able to use Lazarus in the future as an alternative to Delphi. >>

This has been a problem for a while, due to the internal architecture of EWB and the source code requirement for Lazarus.  I need to cleanly separate out the internal bits of EWB (designer/compiler) that I don't want public, and just haven't had the chance to do so.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Matthew,

<< I may be wrong, but isn't the server going to run the "Web Builder Script", not the java output? That's what the IDE is doing I think. So this is not a javascript engine running, but a Pascal-derived engine. >>

That is correct. It's an Object Pascal engine, not a JS engine.

<< I think this is going to be very powerful (it already is for the browser), but interacting with the external world will be required I suspect, using DLLs, and certainly the custom modules. >>

It will for some very specific things, but the goal is to have *most* of the functionality be in the run-time for the server-side code.  This will, of course, expand over time, but initially will cover the areas that I mentioned above.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

I think it's possible to distribute close source applications for Lazarus (Lazarus PPUs files only). For example RAUDUS Web-framework is close source for Lazarus.

Jiri Dvorsky
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Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:

Frederick,

<< I would also like if EWB will be able to use Lazarus in the future as an alternative to Delphi. >>

This has been a problem for a while, due to the internal architecture of EWB and the source code requirement for Lazarus.  I need to cleanly separate out the internal bits of EWB (designer/compiler) that I don't want public, and just haven't had the chance to do so.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Jiri,

<< I think it's possible to distribute close source applications for Lazarus (Lazarus PPUs files only). For example RAUDUS Web-framework is close source for Lazarus. >>

I'll have to double-check, but there was an issue with design-time packages and PPU files in the past when we ported EDB to Lazarus/FreePascal.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Jiri,

Thanks, BTW.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

You're welcome. See
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Packages#Creating_a_closed_sourced_package
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Releasing_units_without_source_code


Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:

Jiri,

Thanks, BTW.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Jiri,

<< You're welcome. See
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Packages#Creating_a_closed_sourced_package
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Releasing_units_without_source_code >>

Beautiful, that changes a lot for us.

Thanks again,

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com