[DUG] Developers not upgrading

[John Bird]

Developers not upgrading...

I suppose that is one of the core Codegear problems.....I have been working
at a firm with production software in Delphi 5 Enterprise - there has been
no real need to upgrade, as it does most of what they need.  The main
reluctance about upgrading are simply the unknowns of later versions of a
few essential components - Report Builder, BDE, F-Piette.
If there was an easy way to even just test compiling and running the
existing code on a later version, I bet it would be much easier for clients
like this to upgrade...

Maybe there is scope for some labs for developers to test some real code
before buying a new version...or might be one of the advantages of
virtualisation....

It has been an interesting experience moving back and forth between Delphi
2007 and Delphi 5:

In Delphi 5 I miss:
-Delphi 5 is very grey - there is little or no colour anywhere in the IDE.
-I miss the code completion, component alignment guides, refactoring, code
insight (tips), lists of open units drop down

In Delphi 5 I Don't miss (ie what Delphi 5 got right)
-The help is blindlingly fast and convenient
-Components hardly ever jump on the form when clicked
-The IDE starts in about 5-10 seconds instead of 1-2 minutes

The help problem is fortunately solvable - I added the Delphi 5 help to the
D2007 Tools menu :)

Overall D2007 is more solid than Delphi 5.  No performance problems in the
IDE (well apart from the slow start, slow help - but blame MS for that one
with their Document Explorer).  In fact the only bug I have noticed is an
occasional display glitch in the Object inspector, where a line in the grid
gets duplicated or the cursor gets confused where it is and jumps somwhere
at random.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Richard Vowles

Hi Leigh, any number I put out there would simply be a guess - we come
across people regularly who use earlier versions of Delphi who simply won't
upgrade.

Richard Vowles, Technical Advisor
Developers Inc Ltd