AFAIA D06 allows you to install only the bits you are interested in, and creates different icons so you can run only the bits you are interested in. Ie you can run just the win32 bits.
Supposedly it also starts up and moves faster than d05. Regards Sean --------------------------------------- Sean Cross mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pics Print - The photo printing solution for Windows. http://www.picsprint.com Rental Property Manager: Rental management made easy http://www.Intuitex.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Meek > Sent: 12 October 2005 8:37 a.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Delphi 2006 Announced...moved from Delphi List > > > Even though they "announced" it's release, not their > intention to, I knew that is what is was, however I think the > reason so many of us are frustrated by an announcement like > this is that it's the same old thing again! Borland's ideas > on Marketing seem to be aimed at the kind of hype that you > throw out at stockholder's meetings, and NOT in actually > doing anything to get their products into the hands of the > people who use them. That quote was right out of a similar > statement made about Delphi 2005, and it doesn't mean > anything more today than it did then! > I love Delphi, but I had to wait almost 6 full months > before I could even begin doing any serious work with Delphi > 2005, and as for Delphi 8, well that one never even got fired > up for one project! The people who actually use these tools > can easily see past the hype and fanfare, and it is something > we have all learned to deal with no matter what products > we're buying, but there must be something behind the hype > first! Let's face the cold hard truth. If you are a Win32 > Pascal developer only, Delphi is getting to be too much to > handle, too difficult to use, and too expensive to buy! > Delphi stopped being Delphi after D7! > I understand their need to move toward the all-in-one > IDE like Microsoft's, and I would have no problem with that > at all IF Delphi came with an integrated configuration > manager that allowed you to setup and use just what you want > without all the excess baggage weighting you down. What is > really needed is a modular IDE that one can buy providing just for the > language(s) wanted, and the extras wanted. Add to it as > wanted, but don't force it on me! Especially things like ECO > and Together! > And one of the things that really has me worried is > this common VCL they've mentioned only in passing. The > Delphi VCL is great, but will they be writing it in Pascal or > C++ or C# or some other incarnation of .NET? They certainly > are not going to release separate source versions for each > language, so I worry that I may end up not even being able to > read it unless I'm proficient in another language! This is > an important question we all need an answer to! > > from: Robert Meek at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > dba "Tangentals Design" home of "PoBoy" > freeware Windows apps and utilities > located at: www.TangentalsDesign.com > Proud to be a moderator for the > "Delphi Programming Lists" at: elists.org > > > It's a press release not a launch. > > > It's called marketing. There will no doubt be many follow-ups > with specifics. > > > It's not Delphi anymore, it's the Borland > > Application Studio! > > No it isn't and who cares if it isn't named Delphi anymore. > It Borland Developer Studio. It has Delphi, C# and C++ personalities. > > Just like Visual Studio has C#, C++ and VB. > > __________________________________________________ > Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-> talk > > __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
