> There have been quite a few rather negative posts of people > who do longer consider Delphi upgrades worth the price. > Out of pure curiosity, does that mean that older Delphi versions > are already offering all you will ever need or that Borland is > no longer adding the features you want or any other reasons ? > (economy, platforms, other ... ?) > I wonder if there is anything Borland could do that, when > executed perfectly of course, would thrill enough to make you > reconsider upgrading Delphi ?
For us, a few things would compel us to upgrade. First, faster more responsive IDE. Delphi does very poorly with very large projects. It has gotten to the point in Delphi 7 that all the IDE time saver features are all turned off in our projects. Code/Class completion is painfully slow. I am terrified of 2005 from the bug reports that have been posted. Last I heard with patches, it was "acceptable" which given our project size probably means too slow. Second, handheld development features (which will never happen). I said it before Kylix, during Kylix and certainly after... there is a bright future in handhelds much more so than desktop Linux. I wish they hadn't spent all that time and money going down that more or less dead end. Last on my upgrade list, better XML integration. XML and SQL access and commands should be practically native to a modern language. Don't even get me started on how cool it is to trace into stored procs in Visual Studio or using the new XML field in Visual Studio/SQL Server 2005. Delphi is quickly falling behind to Visual Studio as MS has gotten their act together. __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
