Since I utilize a lot of commercial and open source toolkits in our product, it has been a proven nightmare to go to any version beyond Delphi 2007, migration wise. This migration hassle exists for Delphi 2009 just as much as it does in D2010. My port to D2009 was never completed by the time D2010 was released, let's just say.
I own both D2009 and D2010, and although I look forward to developing in D2010 in the coming year and maybe even Prism and Delphi for PHP, our flagship product will remain in D2007 for the next six months to a year minimum. I've used every version of the Borland (and future companies) Pascal product since Turbo Pascal v3.01a and although every version of the IDE has grown in power and potential, very little about how I develop code has changed except for what, the new VCL's bring, i.e. threads, transparent forms, DirectX, etc. I even still use Brief compatible commands when navigating around! Fwiw, I only use the Professional edition, not Enterprise, as database programming is not something I do so can't speak to changes in that arena although I imagine they are extensive. For me the upgrade will be worth it later this year, but for right now D2010 sit on my shelf collecting dust. -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@elists.org [mailto:delphi-boun...@elists.org] On Behalf Of Rainer von Saleski Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 11:12 AM To: delphi@elists.org Subject: [Delphi] To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade I just received notice that the upgrade path from Delphi 7 will be closed "forever" effective Jan. 31. Is it worth upgrading to Delphi 2010? Or should I just be content with whatever I can do in Delphi 7? Or will there be so many headaches using Delphi 2010 that I'll never convert my existing programs? I value comments from those of you who have followed the upgrade path! Thanks, Rainer _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list Delphi@elists.org http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list Delphi@elists.org http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi
