Add support for Delphi Prism

FinalBuilder Feature Requests
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Ok, before I begin, I realize that bringing up Pascal for .Net tends to give most vendors the shivers.  No one ever seems truly ready to embrace it, let alone commit to it.  Yet, there are users like me that do use it.

That said, until recently Pascal for .Net has been plagued by a tug-of-war between CodeGear and RemObjects.  CodeGear had Delphi for .Net and RemObjects had Chrome/Joyride/Oxygene.  CodeGear's flavor was closer to Delphi for Win32 but required its own IDE.  Chrome ran in Visual Studio as a first-class citizen but was less compatible with "classic" Delphi.  The Pascal community was divided.  That rift is apparently being sealed with the "merger" of the two camps; Oxygene marketed under the Delphi name as Prism.

FinalBuilder has always been supportive of the Pascal world.  Not only does it support numerous versions of Delphi for Win32 and Delphi for .Net, but Chrome was supported as well.  This being the case, what are the chances FB will introduce Prism support?

In honesty, I don't know if perhaps the existing Chrome support will "just work" for Prism.  It would be nice but I would have to guess it isn't going to be that easy.

For that matter, Oxygene was never officially added to the supported compilers list.  Should we take it to mean that Oxygene wasn't supported or that the Chrome option worked for it?

Regards,

Rich

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Hi Rich

We will be adding support for Prism in the near future, when time permits (assuming we actually need to). I believe the Chrome action still works with Oxygene, however I haven’t tested it recently.

If prism etc have msbuild task… and assuming the project files are msbuild files (like most are in visual studio) then it should be possible to use the msbuild action… perhaps, will have to investigate.