I have a similar story and D2009 sits on my shelf. I finally decided to move to D2009 Prof. from D5 Ent. The primary culprit in upgrading has been Rave, as there is no BEX version of Rave for either D2009 or D2010. I used an extended version of Rave and it hasn't been upgradedd for two years. Major problem. Still using D5 as a result and it's a pain in the arse using it on XP Pro which breaks the debugger (there are workarounds).
Jerry -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@elists.org [mailto:delphi-boun...@elists.org] On Behalf Of John Clements Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 2:34 PM To: Moderated List for the Discussion of Delphi Programming excludingDatabase-related topics Subject: Re: [Delphi] To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade 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. _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list Delphi@elists.org http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi
