[DUG] Delphi XE (2011)

[Jeremy North]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:15 AM, David Brennan
<dugdavid at dbsolutions.co.nz> wrote:
> Am I correct in thinking that anything which changes the interface of the
> main VCL/RTL dcus means that it is a breaking release and new dcus will be
> required for anything you don't have source for?

Yes

> If so then I can see it would be pretty limiting to not be able to change
> the interface. Many bug fixes and minor enhancements are probably best done
> with refactoring, even on a minor scale, which will mean interface changes.

It is extremely limiting.

You can't change anything at all. So you can't even promote a methods
visibility or make it virtual when it previously wasn't.