Well my concern with Vista is, besides the obvious, mostly to do with DirectX 10.

I don't know if Alexey (Clootie) is planning on doing a translation of a DX10 SDK or not, but on of the deciding factors of choosing to do as such would be a compiler or compilers that supports Vista.

Microsoft has made it very clear that no Vista means no DirectX 10. This sort of has a huge impact on how accessible next gen will be to the open source world. And in our case... Lazarus.


On the issue of libraries though, I'm not too concerned with the DirectX DLLs though. MS takes care of MS so the files will be on just about any Windows box. My thoughts do lie on what I can put out of the box and what will be needed to be made into separate packages. (if I can do so considering the creator/owner's license on it)

All headers and source however will be included as I see no real clause stating that I cannot bundle the source in with the GDE.