I have a couple of things: Stop making a big new release every year. A new big release costs time in getting upgraded components/testing et c. I rather have and even pay for servicepacks. But just don't let those servicepack break existing code. So this is an economical question. Not just the money but the time as well since time is worth more than money. I rather have those days off than spending them on upgrading to a new Delphi version.
Make the IDE and compiler/VCL completely separate. Let me choose if I work on a Delphi 5 project or a Delphi 2006 project. It can be done. I have setup batch-script to select which VCLs to use and I have seen it other environments. Like I said I am using Delphi 5. The thing that I dislike the most is that even though I got a very fast computer and a lot RAM it's very slow with CodeInsight. It also takes a lot of time to load my packages (yes, I have many and they are going to stay many, I like options and do a lot of different kind of projects). I know that latter versions of Delphi is supposed to be faster on this but I am quite ok with that D5 takes some time to start and that CodeInsight takes a couple of more seconds on the first run. I also would like to say that Delphi probably have the best 3rd party libraries I have ever seen. I am so happy when somebody asks me how I did something in a program and I just say "well I have this component, I drop it on a form, trigger some events and voila". That's one reason of why I am staying with Delphi at the moment. Regards, Fredrik. -----Original Message----- 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 ? __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
