Daniel James wrote:

> I disagree. The value of cross-platform tools is that the SAME codebase 
> targets all platforms. The idea is that it should be possible to write 
> application code that can be built -- without change -- for any 
> (supported) platform.

That may be nice for new projects -- but how am I going to take any of 
my large applications, which rely heavily on various DevEx components, 
such as the Quantum Grid, the Scheduler, and a host of others -- and 
recompile them for the Mac?


The answer, of course, is that I won't be able to. It took DevEx many 
months to fully adapt to Unicode! It would take them 3 centuries to 
adapt all that code that is ultimately based on the WinAPI, and make 
that library work the same on Windows, Linux and Mac.


I think that many developers have projects that could never be 
recompiled for another platform. We have taken advantage of the great 
specialization and benefits that a come from focusing on a single platform.


The most that I could hope for in the short-term, is to be able to 
provide separate projects that provide some of the functionality of the 
products. That kind of flies in the face of the same code base.


Loren sZendre