[DUG] Presentation in Christchurch - any other meetings in Chch?

[Conor Boyd]

I'm surprised too.
 
We would love to see a 64-bit compiler.  I was disappointed to read
Jolyon's comprehensive blog post on the subject this morning.
 
My team leader has spent the past few months vociferously petitioning
Nick Hodges and anybody else he can find on any number of forums to try
and get our feelings across on that subject.

C.

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I'm really not sold on the VCLX project. I will concede that my attitude
is in part based on my memory of the Kylux and .NET disasters which were
admittedly with Borland rather than Embarcadero. However I just don't
see that it is possible to produce a really excellent cross platform
version of Delphi in 18 months. Maybe by VCLX version 2 or 3 it will be
reasonable but even then my understanding is that most existing
development projects (ie any using significant GUIs with third party
components, such as ours) will have no chance of moving to the cross
platform VCLX.

 

We don't have any real need for 64 bit compilation either yet BUT at
least it seems like a logical progression of core Delphi and is
something we will definitely want in the future. VCLX seems like a
massive detour (yet another VCL version!) and a likely waste of
resources rather than an improvement to core functionality.

 

>From what Malcolm says though I'm in the minority. I'm surprised but it
wouldn't be the first time ;-).

 

I guess we will see how it pans out.

 

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