[DUG] Delphi 2006 and 2007 - Accredo etc

[David Brennan]

Hi,

There are a fair number of complaints coming out on the list about Delphi
2007 and I recall a similar (or higher!) number for Delphi 2006 and 2005.

Some of these problems can probably be put down to the user being used to
doing things one way and frustrated at having to do them another way
(particularly if the new way isn't easy to work out). However some of the
problems sound like they could be more serious in that the new functionality
is noticeably worse than it was in Delphi 5-7.

I gathered from the below post that Accredo have moved to Delphi 2006. I
imagine there are some other reasonable sized development teams which have
moved up to Delphi 2005-2007.

So... how have Accredo and other similar development teams found it? How
many gotcha's really are annoying rather than just a change in the way
things work?

It sounds like the Help system making gigantic leaps back between Delphi 7
and 2005+ is one annoying gotcha. What else?

My interest is obviously that we are still using Delphi 5 (despite owning
various newer copies as well). I'm still planning on moving forward when
Delphi 2008 comes out but I am a little concerned...

Cheers,
David.
 


-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Paul Heinz
Sent: Friday, 17 August 2007 11:19 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: RE: [DUG] Well ... ??

David wrote: 

> Angle bracket syntax is what we were demoed in the Highlander 
> beta. That was .NET only, generics don't come to Win32 until 
> the next release which is early 2008.

I'm sure they'll use the same syntax for Win32. Why write two parser
frontends when one will do :-) And in fact, they can largely share most
of the instantiation backends as well if the factor the design properly
as generics instantiation is largely a semantic/syntactic middle-end
(i.e. pre-codegen) phase.

> Incidentally that release (the early 2008 one with generics) 
> will be the magic silver bullet which will inspire us to 
> upgrade from Delphi 5 to the latest Delphi (presumably 2008).

Yeah. The IDE improvements got us from Delphi 7 up to BDS 2006. But
Delphi 2007 is somewhat underwhelming for us but I'm sure it has value
for others. Tiburon (or whatever they're calling it) with Win32 generics
will move us up. I will finally be able to retire my external Delphi
generics implementation.

TTFN,
  Paul.

Paul Heinz | Accredo Business Software Ltd
34 Burleigh St | PO Box 99156 | Auckland, NZ
P: +64 9 373 5963 | F: +64 9 373 5961
M: 021 456 231 | www.accredo.co.nz 
 

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