Comments on: 24 – Delphi Projects

By: Gustavo Carreno

Gustavo Carreno — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:17:26 +0000

C’mon guys, am I the only one to give a name suggestion?

We are waiting in some more name suggestions so we can put up the community collaboration sites.

Please gives some food for thought ?

Cheers,
Gus

By: Anders Pedersen

Anders Pedersen — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:03:53 +0000

Great work, great idea for the blog, great every thing.
looking forward to following you all.

Anders

By: Heinz Zastrau

Heinz Zastrau — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:45:40 +0000

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By: Gustavo Carreno

Gustavo Carreno — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:24:05 +0000

@Mohammed: I’m thinking in only develop all of this in Lazarus on my side, so I’ll probably take care of all the finer tweaks to make it work on {$IFDEF FPC} and {$IFDEF DELPHI}

By: Mohammed Nasman

Mohammed Nasman — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:46:30 +0000

@Jamie: I think if you start with windows version but using libraries that available for Delphi win32 and Free Pascal, it will be good a show case for developing cross-platform application using Delphi that working on windows and other OSes such as: Linux and MacOS

By: Gustavo Carreno

Gustavo Carreno — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:01:44 +0000

@Jamie: Good, I’ll then try and find that unit or object that encapsulates the windows http thingy.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:23:21 +0000

@Gustavo Carreno: Yes, Windows only for now.

By: Gustavo Carreno

Gustavo Carreno — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:27:40 +0000

And completing the thought on my earlier post: cuz I recall a very simple unit that implements the WinSOCK HTTP somewhere in http://torry.net.

By: Gustavo Carreno

Gustavo Carreno — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:26:04 +0000

@Jamie: Is this going to be a Windows project only or are you guys thinking about multiplatform.
I ask this cuz, I also, have thought about a much simpler code base for the HTTP requests. This client isn’t going to need all the glamor and whistles that come with the existing bundles, is it?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:19:21 +0000

@Gustavo Carreno: Thanks, Give me a heads up if you post any info!

@Esteban Pacheco: Listening to the replay I can see what might have lead you to that impression. But there was no pre-arrangement on the subject of Synapse. I think the reason we didn’t go with Indy was that we’d all seen problem caused by different versions of Indy between versions of Delphi.
Plus, the RESTlib (http://code.google.com/p/restlib/) that Jim briefly mentioned already uses Synapse behind the scenes. I would ideally like to see anything that can’t be bundled with the code removed or rewritten though. We only really need the socket in one place (a simple HTTP call) so if the Main Methods of the Indy TIdHTTP component have remained largely stable then it might be worth rewriting so we cut out the dependency, what do you think?