On 4 June 2010 17:03, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote: > is a hit, it's a good way to encourage customers to upgrade. In our case > it's primarily a good way to get complaints :)
The big difference you are overlooking is that in a open-source environment you get to see what is happening before a release is out. You get a changes to prepare your code while the changes are being implemented. If you were early enough you could maybe even have contributed in the thought process for the code-breaking changes. I have been following this same path with fpGUI and our company projects. As soon as FPC announces a RC or Beta, then I start looking at what needs to change in our projects to stay compatible when the new release is finally out. Lately I have been following trunk too. In a closed source environment the end-user is left in the dark (not even a detailed roadmap from Embarcadero) and only see what changed after you purchased the new version. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other