Re: R: Pascal

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

marco frattola wrote:
> 
> > I feel your pain.  Not only is is not open source, it's *quite*
> > expensive, much more so than Windows Delphi.  We're talking $1K here,
> > for the *less* expensive version.
> 
> there's a rumored free download edition coming out around june (they say).
> without db support (i fear) and something else too.
> 
> > Also, there's apparently no driver for Postgresql, so there's no
> > connection to a full-featured free database.  Needless to
> 
> i think you're wrong here, there's support for interbase, that's free and
> opensource. 

Oh, I forgot they opened that up:

http://www.borland.com/devsupport/interbase/opensource/IPL.html

I stand corrected.  Thanks.

> or if you want to go big names, there's support for db2 and
> oracle.

Erm, my point was "free"...
> 
> > say, Debian is
> > not supported either.  (Am I the only one who finds it offensive that
> 
> not direct support, but i've seen a message saying that the necessary
> patched libc
> has been packaged for debian. there's nothing more you need (except X)

My point is, there's RPMs but no debs.  Really, if they're going to put
a picture of a gnu on their site, they ought to do a little better.