[DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

[Jolyon Smith]

> The D2007 IDE uses quite a bit of .Net code.

Afaik the IDE only uses .NET for the CodeDOM and some other bits and pieces
primarily involved in the modeling/refactoring support.


> is it .Net overhead?

I think it's fair to say that it's .NET overhead of some form, although I
don't know how much of that is strictly speaking ".NET" itself and how much
is the IDE doing stuff that you perhaps could live without (which involves,
and is perhaps made worse by, it's use of .NET, but not strictly speaking
down to .NET per se).


> Vista does not come with .net framework installed 

I think it does, just perhaps not the version that D2007 requires, so D2007
has to install *another* version of the framework.  .NET may have declared
the end of DLL hell... and gave us Framework/Assembly hell instead.

Which are essentially just a.n.other form of DLL, so really no change at
all, just a rose (or "turd") by another name....

It's "General Protection Faults are dead, long live the Access Violation"
all over again.  :)


More revealing is the fact that the majority of new API's even in Windows 7
use native code interfaces, primarily COM.