[DUG] Delphi Starter Edition

[John Bird]

For those on D7 or earlier, its worth pointing out that a professional version of D7 also would not contain pretty much any of the things left out of the Starter edition – so it is still a pretty good deal in my humble opinion.

ie those wanting a cheap upgrade from D5/D6/D7 can get this Starter with the newer IDE and still get most everything they already have plus many new features.

John

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>>I wouldn’t call it “crippled”, but it is deliberately limited in comparison to Professional/Enterprise/Architect.  I suppose you might call it crippled in the same way that you might call a 1.8 Mondeo “crippled” in comparison to a 2.5V6 model.  Or you might just call it “suited to a different purpose/market”. J

Here’s a quick summary of what’s missing (according to the feature matrix), categorised according to my own personal perspective/opinion:

 

Good Exclusions:

 

-          DBExpress

-          Data Snap

-          UML Modelling

-          Code Formatting

-          Code Templates

-          Code Completion for HTML

-          Source Control (SVN) Integration

-          i18n/L10N tools

-          DUnit Integration

-          AQ Time / FinalBuilder /CodeSite trialware integrations

-          Azure/EC2 integrations

-          RAVE Reports

-          SOAP  / BizSnap

-          IntraWeb

-          WebSnap

-          ER/Studio

 

Odd choices:

 

-          AutoUpdating IDE (does this mean Starter Edition is not intended to be updated?)

-          Command line tools (TDump, resource compiler etc)

-          Class Explorer (!?!)

-          Resource Manager (not ever knowingly used it myself tho, so this may be a good choice)

-          Symbol Insight (!?!)

-          Code Folding (!?!)

-          TODO lists (!!?!)

 

Really, really BAD choices:

 

-          Numerous debugger limitations, including:

o   reduced multi-thread tools, no freeze/thaw thread for example

o   reduced breakpoint controls (no data aware triggers)

o   No Evaluator (!!?! I really REALLY hope this doesn’t mean the Ctrl-F7 evaluator – that would be DUMB DUMB DUMB)

o   No expandable local variables (but you DO get expandable watches – go figure)

 

-          COM limitations, including such mind bending exclusions as :

o   No Type Library Editor

o   No COM Object Wizard

o   No support for automation object event handling

o   No ability to generate component wrappers for imported COM servers !!?!?!!

 



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