[DUG] Delphi 10.2 Tokyo ready for production?

[Tony Blomfield]

Tokyo is good for me anyway. Possibly the best release since D7.

From: delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of Jan Bakuwel
Sent: Thursday, 21 September 2017 4:39 PM
To: delphi at listserver.123.net.nz
Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi 10.2 Tokyo ready for production?

Hi Tony,

Thanks for your reply.

On 21/09/17 16:10, Tony Blomfield wrote:
I have been using 10.2 Tokyo now for 6 months or so.
The big shock was No BDE. I never realized how pervasive BDE actually was. I haven’t used any BDE components or 20 years, but never the less all of my existing projects would not compile.
I had to make a decision, and in the end installed the optional BDE that comes with Tokyo. The main driver for that was that my last version (XE2) was such a pile of crap that I couldn’t live with it any more.

I wouldn't call XE5 a pile of crap (but trust you when you say XE2 is). Having said that I still ran into bugs in XE5 that really should have been cleared by the QC/testing process before release especially observing the fact that these bugs will never be fixed, which devalues my toolkit quicker than I can justify.


The next challenge was my 3 X OEM component sets. The cost of upgrading these is a huge disincentive, and you have to think about this carefully.
If I put those two matters aside, the upgrade from XE2 to Tokyo was uneventful.
Really the main thing I have against Delphi, is the TCO. For me it’s about 4K NZD to upgrade including the 4 subscriptions. However, for building vertical applications it’s still a country mile ahead of the rest if you use it the way it is intended to be used.

Very true. I'm well versed in the Delphi development environment, but every time I hit this stumbling block I'm thinking whether or not to switch to something else.

So ... I take it you're happy with 10.2 Tokyo? No serious issues?

thanks,
Jan



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