[DUG] D7 vs D2007

[Myles Penlington]

I agree. In the end, you must be crazy not to be on D2007. There are
just so many worthwhile improvements.

Myles.

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
On Behalf Of Alister Christie
Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2008 10:15 a.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] D7 vs D2007

I would really not like to go back to D7, D2007 is significantly more 
productive.  I don't think it's as stable and I've lost a bit of work 
due to it crashing (bout an hours work which I was able to reproduce 
within about 10 minutes).  I like the refactoring tools, the code 
templates save heaps to time (even just the automatic matching of 
begin/ends), the error insight helps spot errors instantly, rather than 
at compile time.  The docked layout is heaps better (on a large screen),

VCL Guidelines are really handy, and probably heaps of other stuff that 
I now take for granted (but would hate to live without).  I think 
everyone running D7 should upgrade D2007 (well, D2009 shortly), the only

reason not to would be if you're missing the code to some critical 
components, or that they are now unsupported and wont easily compile 
under D2007 - which was the challenging part of upgrading from D7 to 
D2006 for me (getting all the 3rd party components to play nice with 
each other).

Anyway - just my opinion.

Alister Christie
Computers for People

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