I've been using VMware for development for about 5 years. its very good. On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Alister Christie < alis...@salespartner.co.nz> wrote:
> I have many components that need to play nice together that I always > have trouble getting installed into the IDE. The D7 to D2006 upgrade > was painful, D2006 to D2007 was trivial. I've been procrastinating over > the D2007 -> 9 -> 10 upgrade. > > I think my next development environment will be a Virtual Machine which > will allow me to experiment a bit more aggressively, I understand that > quite a few people are using VMs for this purpose these days. > > Alister Christie > Computers for People > Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 > http://www.salespartner.co.nz > PO Box 13085 > Johnsonville > Wellington > > > > John Bird wrote: > > The point I am making is that as a programmer knowing only one version > and > > taking a big leap into the unknown -upgrading from D5 to BDS2006 it was a > > lot easier than I was expecting. > > > > A way lot easier - I don't recall any issues of any code that broke > either. > > > > A little encouragement to those on D7 etc. > > > > John > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe > -- Kyley Harris Harris Software +64-21-671-821
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