[DUG] History Tabs?

[Matt Comb]

Fair enough. I wasn't actually backing the most recent raft of comments 
merely pointing out some pretty strong shots were being fired. Everyone is 
obviously getting quite emotive about this thread.

I'm as big a Delphi enthusiast as the rest of us but I have to say after 
doing a Delphi .Net conversion earlier this year I was bitterly 
disappointed. The new IDE seemed quite awesome as far as what is was trying 
to achieve but stability was terrible. I spent 2 hours of every day either 
restarting Delphi or rebooting the machine after a lockup. As I was on 
contract I actually did a time study on this, this isn't a guess.

Other design bugs I encountered were similar to most developers including 
but not limited to component events suddenly disappearing from all 
components on a form. What a nightmare. Sure I can go to a backup version 
but in an environment where you are doing a conversion from VCL to .NET it 
makes the whole process way more cumbersome.

I've heard since that the patches are an improvement on certain issues which 
is great and caused me to finally upgrade to D2005.

The thing that I was agreeing with in Kyley's original post was as a 
business owner myself, I'm not that happy about having to pay for a product 
that actually was never usable. We aren't talking about minor bugs but major 
flaws that prevent it from being productive. If D2006 is the solution then 
where does that leave those that have invested in good faith to get D2005. I 
would hope that the update fee to go from D2005 to D2006 is very small.

Regarding the professional v enterprise debate, I also stick with 
professional on the basis that I simply don't like some of the bloated 
component sets that exist (e.g. indy) and prefer to take a cleaner approach 
to things. I think this idea is not independant from what has been discussed 
above. Quality is better than Quantity.

Thats just my personal opion, perhaps I should be more careful with my 
cheerleading.

Matt.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <JeremyN at FrontierSoftware.com.au>
To: <delphi at ns3.123.co.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:42 PM
Subject: RE: [DUG] History Tabs?


>> Kyley 12 / Delphi 0
>
> Just to put this into perspective, Matt also agreed with Kyley's "The 
> brain
> is an excellent tool for all the other stuff." sentence.
>
> I'm actually considering about blogging this.
>
> Feel free to have an input into the discussion. No need for cheerleaders
> here.
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