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Borland Releases Kylix 3.0 for Delphi and C++

Posted by michael on from the if-it's-pretty-it-must-be-better dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Borland is giving us Kylix for C++ after all. Kylix 3.0 is available in Open, Professional, and Enterprise versions. Time to start banging out those CLX apps! The Register also has a story about this."

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  1. If they could get this used in schools... by FyRE666 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This would be a major reason for schools on tight budgets to turn to Linux for computer programming classes! Why pay for the Microsoft tools (and tax) when this is available? Seems the LTSP folks should look into this...

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    Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
  2. GCC and borland by johnjones · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ok borland have been shipping their CPP compiler for a while on linux (nothing new)

    what this release does I would think is link aganst the CLX to do the GUI stuff

    and add their CPP IDE (which is actually visual and drag and drop unlike microsofts which is just a text editor but they call it visual...)

    now if they where useing STANDARD CPP why should using GCC be impossible (I suspect they have a few broken things in terms of standard support just like gcc has a few broken things) and the fact that CPP changes every meeting does not help but it would be nice if they said what gcc would require to do this
    (I am not talking about opening up CLX just linking your code with it useing gnu tools)

    borland selling in effect libs and a IDE would be a good thing IMHO

    regards

    john jones

  3. This also affects NWN. by rasjani · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Never Winter Nights gameeditor for linux hasnt been released because of this. It was build with c++ builder but they couldnt release it for linux because they didnt have Kylix yet to allow. Yew! Wonder who fast isle can provide the editor ;))

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  4. Re:Has Borland dropped their dependency on Qt yet? by SwellJoe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So you'd use a proprietary product, just not if it uses another proprietary product? (that is distributed under a very similar, and even less restrictive, license!)

    How is Borland any less evil than Troll Tech?

    Huh? How is Troll Tech evil? People wanted QT under the GPL, and lo and behold, they released it under the GPL. Seems like a nice bunch of folks to me.