[Zope] Prerequisites for a desktop IDE, or any desktop app w/ Zope

Christian Tismer tismer@tismer.com
Fri, 25 May 2001 00:20:02 +0200


Christian Tismer wrote:
...
> My proposal is to use Delphi, and build a tool with it which is like
> Delphi. The task would be just to write such an app, not too hard
> probably. Delphi is written in itself, as you know.
> I have already written some generic application with about 20 generic
> widgets, which are all configurable at runtime. And Delphi is able
> to produce .dfm files at runtime and to read them back in.
> It is so self-contained that it is somehow waiting to be stolen
> as a generic app framework. I'm wondering why nobody does it.
> 
> Maybe I should do this now.

Errhmm, can it be that exactly this is forbidden by Inprise?
I somehow remember that I've read some statement that I may
not use Delphi to code a Delphi-like IDE.
Did I dream, or is it true?

anxiously - chris

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