Sorry about my intervention but I just would like to tell this : - It is true that "hobbyist" developpers like to get latest Delphi version (pirated or free personnal version).
- It is true that professional developpers don't have time or resource to spend in upgrading to upper versions of Delphi, learn new features, check compatibility, loose time with new bugs or not-same reacting functions. - It is true that it when you have a running D2/3/4 application you may not want go to delphi 5/6/7/2005 and spend a lot of time to make it work "as it should" on this new version. You will just do the updates/bugfixes using same "old" Delphi version (sometimes isntalled on dedicated machine or on VirtualPC or VMWare virtual machine). - It is true that making ICS fully D2 to D2005 compatible is really a LOT of work (again thank you François for making ICS) and under certain circumstances it would make new feature not as optimized as they could be because of D2-D4 limitations. But : Why not do like Apache, PHP or MySQL ? maintain a bugfixed "full D2-D2005 compatible version", and create a separate one that would work starting with D5 (or D6) with all new features and newer Delphi code/features optimizations ? For developpers having D2-D4 applications to maintain, this should not be a problem as they usually just have to do bugfixes and not add tons of features on application that may not bring them money anymore. Thoses old applications may not need the new "ICS D5+" functions. And if they really need them, then they will have to adapt code themselves. Personnaly I stay D6 because D7/D2005 don't bring enought improvements (If I new, I would have stay with D5), is too much upgrade priced (whenever I can make customers pay for it), and worst, borland don't even fix existing versions correctly so why pay for even bigger and more buggy Delphi version. This is just a personnal feeling I wanted to share with you all, of course François will decide and I will not even permit myself to say anything against future of ICS. Appart from that, I am old school programmer (started on ZX81 1KB ram when a byte was a byte and a CPU cycle was important) and I am not for the "if my ugly-badly-unoptimized awfully fast-for-win-money developped application is to slow and too big then buy more CPU/RAM/HD..." but I have to say that at a certain time, continuing supporting too old tehnologies may reduce newest ones. Regards. -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
