Hi Frank and Everyone,

Sorry for the late reply, but I had better wait for the legal matters to settle. There are now news for those that are interested in EFLIB as a free Object-Pascal R&D cross-platform. EFLIB prototype 6 is my ongoing master thesis and research project seen at:

http://ftp.sunet.se/EFLIB/Introduction.html http://ftp.sunet.se/Documentation/Technology/

[ In short to newcomers: it is all about flexibility, reuse, object-orientation, data structures, cross-platform technique, aesthetics, mathematics, numeric, generic programming and GUI/HCI. We still need collaborators, especially for database support and CORBA. ]

Frank Heckenbach wrote 980507:

I appreciate that it will be free software. However, due to the recent creation of the NPL, MPL and other more or less compatible free licenses, I'm a bit wary that it will really be a GPC compatible license. I looked at the license mentioned above, but I'm not a lawyer :-), therefore I'd like to see an official statement confirming the possibility to combine it with GPL/LGPL licensed software (i.e. to use and distribute without conflicting with either of the licenses). I hope this will be possible.

The new license agreement should be fully compatible with GNU GPL (but maybe need some more adjustments) and is according to Richard Stallman fully compatible with GNU LGPL. Peter has helped me to adjust it too. See for yourself at:

http://ftp.sunet.se/EFLIB/Legal/License/

GPC is also about platform independence and easy to integrate with other languages, so this could be a good combination. :-)

Indeed - since EFLIB, with help from Miroslav Kharchuk and Michael Van Canneyt, will support Delphi VCL though built on top of a much more modern GUI cross-platform technology, we can actually create a complete FREE platform for Object-Pascal development!

These things are actually planned for GPC:

• Properties
• Classes
• Exception handling

Frank, this is excellent! These things are all you need for EFLIB to run natively under both GNU and FPK Pascal. Please inform me about the progress! I'd be happy to deliver a standard framework / class library for your excellent compiler.

I offer you the ability of changing EFLIB designs according to your personal preferences -- but I would appreciate to hear all your comments ASAP since the architecture must settle soon. Please direct them to: eflib-developers@acc.umu.se.

Yours Sincerely, Johan Larsson jola@csd.uu.se

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