>Not that I'm one of those Linux fans, but I read something interesting today from a Imprise person. It's about his feelings on Imprise developing a version of Delphi for Linux:
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>http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,21171,00.html

Thanks for the reference. Notice to folks just reading this: you can't just click on the link. Paste the whole link into the address line.

I found this paragraph interesting:

"There are so many Linux flavors (Red Hat, Corel, Slackware, Suse, TurboLinux, Bobs Linux. etc)! Testing our apps will be a nightmare!"

Ya, so? How is this different from testing Windows applications on the many flavors of the Win32 platform? Proper testing of Win32 apps today should include testing on the following distinct platforms: "virgin" Win95, Win95 OSR2, Win 95 with IE4, Win95 with IE5, Win95 with DCOM, Win98, Win98 release 2, Win98 with IE5, WinNT 4.0 SP3, WinNT 4 with IE 5, and Windows 2000.



With the advent of "Millenium" and other off-spring, this problem is only going to grow.

Peter