[DUG] Delphi Reinstall

[Jolyon Smith]

If memory serves, activation only became mandatory after Delphi 7.  With
Delphi 6 you could simply continue to use the installed software in an
"unactivated"/unregistered state.  As long as your licenses are all in order
for each installed instance I would see no problem with that state of
affairs.

 

And given the woeful state of the license management facilities (or I should
say complete lack of) on the Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero Developer Network
account site, I would count yourself lucky that you are still using Delphi 6
and are thus able to manage your licenses in "the real world" in this way
rather than having them trapped in the "virtual world" of the license
management system.

 

NOTE: This is not an endorsement of running unregistered software without
relevant licenses.

 

 

From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Eion McIntosh
Sent: Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:00
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] Delphi Reinstall

 

Hi

My position is being disestablished within 3 months, in Christchurch unless
I wanted to move to Dunedin, which I didn't at this stage, and so am looking
for new position, if I can find one, but the company has a number of Delphi
applications which I'm the soul developer for and they want to install a
instance of the version I've being using, 6, so they can maintain them if
needed. I don't know if any of the other developers have any experience in
Delphi, but that's up to them, but the last time I updated my PC it took
some time to get it registered, because it created a registration different
key each time it is installed, I think based on the PC specs. 

My questions are, is it still possible to register a version this old or
will continue to work ok, without any issues, if it is installed, but
remained unregistered?

If anyone can help on any of these points it would be appreciated.

Regards

Eion McIntosh | Business Systems Analyst | Silver Fern Farms Limited
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