On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Alexandre Leclerc wrote:
> This is off topic but yesterday I installed D2005 just to look at it. (The
> last Delphi I used was D6 or & I believe, in 2003).
>
> I might be only me, but I was in shock when I saw the Interface. It took me
> everything to set the IDE to non-integrated, and was almost screaming of
> horror when I saw the tool bar for the components. The interface takes soo
> much time to load and it feels bloated.
Hehe :-)
I recommend everybody to use Delphi 7 unless you really must develop for .NET.
Delphi 2005 is a total disaster. Instable as hell, slow, buggy.
The new component palette is totally unusable for fast development,
The man who thought of that must be totally braindead.
The 'embedded' form designer is broken, it no longer supports TCustomForm.
But it's obvious where they're going: running after .NET and Visual Studio.
>
> Well, it might only be me: resistant to changes. :) I begin to be more and
> more glad to see the lazarus project.
>
> Anyone else has see D2005? I would be interested to hear about your opinion,
> even if they are totally different from my 'first contact'. I might become
> too old! :)
No, I have similar experiences. We bought 5 copies at my work
(Enterprise/architect).
After 3 weeks of trying, we returned all of them to Borland, and exchanged
them for Delphi 7 licenses. There was no way we were going to risk releasing
our software with that; We have more than 1000 schools as customers for our
flagship product, and it was considered too risky to continue.
We got also as a statement from the Borland representative that the native code
compiler will not be continued, but I don't think this is an official statement.
Michael.
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