Hi Tony, Thanks for your reply.
On 21/09/17 16:10, Tony Blomfield wrote: > > I have been using 10.2 Tokyo now for 6 months or so. > > The big shock was No BDE. I never realized how pervasive BDE actually > was. I haven’t used any BDE components or 20 years, but never the less > all of my existing projects would not compile. > > I had to make a decision, and in the end installed the optional BDE > that comes with Tokyo. The main driver for that was that my last > version (XE2) was such a pile of crap that I couldn’t live with it any > more. > I wouldn't call XE5 a pile of crap (but trust you when you say XE2 is). Having said that I still ran into bugs in XE5 that really should have been cleared by the QC/testing process before release especially observing the fact that these bugs will never be fixed, which devalues my toolkit quicker than I can justify. > The next challenge was my 3 X OEM component sets. The cost of > upgrading these is a huge disincentive, and you have to think about > this carefully. > > If I put those two matters aside, the upgrade from XE2 to Tokyo was > uneventful. > > Really the main thing I have against Delphi, is the TCO. For me it’s > about 4K NZD to upgrade including the 4 subscriptions. However, for > building vertical applications it’s still a country mile ahead of the > rest if you use it the way it is intended to be used. > Very true. I'm well versed in the Delphi development environment, but every time I hit this stumbling block I'm thinking whether or not to switch to something else. So ... I take it you're happy with 10.2 Tokyo? No serious issues? thanks, Jan -- Omiha Systems Ltd NEW ZEALAND For support please email [email protected] or browse to http://support.omiha.com For urgent support please call p +64 9 950 3007 m +64 22 1984 064 m +64 22 312 5916 m +64 22 103 9151
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