Hi, There are a fair number of complaints coming out on the list about Delphi 2007 and I recall a similar (or higher!) number for Delphi 2006 and 2005.
Some of these problems can probably be put down to the user being used to doing things one way and frustrated at having to do them another way (particularly if the new way isn't easy to work out). However some of the problems sound like they could be more serious in that the new functionality is noticeably worse than it was in Delphi 5-7. I gathered from the below post that Accredo have moved to Delphi 2006. I imagine there are some other reasonable sized development teams which have moved up to Delphi 2005-2007. So... how have Accredo and other similar development teams found it? How many gotcha's really are annoying rather than just a change in the way things work? It sounds like the Help system making gigantic leaps back between Delphi 7 and 2005+ is one annoying gotcha. What else? My interest is obviously that we are still using Delphi 5 (despite owning various newer copies as well). I'm still planning on moving forward when Delphi 2008 comes out but I am a little concerned... Cheers, David. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Heinz Sent: Friday, 17 August 2007 11:19 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: RE: [DUG] Well ... ?? David wrote: > Angle bracket syntax is what we were demoed in the Highlander > beta. That was .NET only, generics don't come to Win32 until > the next release which is early 2008. I'm sure they'll use the same syntax for Win32. Why write two parser frontends when one will do :-) And in fact, they can largely share most of the instantiation backends as well if the factor the design properly as generics instantiation is largely a semantic/syntactic middle-end (i.e. pre-codegen) phase. > Incidentally that release (the early 2008 one with generics) > will be the magic silver bullet which will inspire us to > upgrade from Delphi 5 to the latest Delphi (presumably 2008). Yeah. The IDE improvements got us from Delphi 7 up to BDS 2006. But Delphi 2007 is somewhat underwhelming for us but I'm sure it has value for others. Tiburon (or whatever they're calling it) with Win32 generics will move us up. I will finally be able to retire my external Delphi generics implementation. TTFN, Paul. Paul Heinz | Accredo Business Software Ltd 34 Burleigh St | PO Box 99156 | Auckland, NZ P: +64 9 373 5963 | F: +64 9 373 5961 M: 021 456 231 | www.accredo.co.nz _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
