Re: What about Data Modules?

From: Dan Palley (dan_at_trams.com)
Date: 11/08/03 

Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 16:24:21 -0800

"Mike Mormando" <mike@nomormandospam.com> wrote in message
news:3fac151b@newsgroups.borland.com...
> "Dan Palley" <dan@trams.com> wrote in message
> news:3fac01b5$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > Ok, John Kaster has now categorically stated (in
> > borland.dephi.netpreview.non-technical) that D8 will support data
modules
> > with VCL for .NET -- good enough?
> >
> > What gave you the impression that D8 would *not* support data modules?
>
> Obviously I wasn't clear in my postscript, it was just a tease.
> I had no opinion whether or not datamodules would be supported, I was just
> saying that compiling a D1 program, since D1 didn't support datamodules,
> wouldn't lend credence one way or the other.
> Sorry if it caused any grief, it was only meant as a joke.

Yes, now I see it as a joke -- to be honest, I didn't even recall that
datamodules didn't exist in D1 until you mentioned it. Sounds like a good
quiz question for the "meet the Delphi team" session at the next BorConn: In
what version of Delphi did Datamodules first appear?

I guess you weren't at BorConn earlier this week. The main thrust of many
of the D8 demos was the amount of effort Borland has put into backward
compatibility. As an example, ~ 95% of the VCL source was not modified for
.NET; it was simply recompiled (going by memory here from Eddie's session).

People are getting all bent out of shape about what will or won't be in D8
and how easy it will be to port existing apps to .NET. Since the product
isn't even shipping yet, I think all these discussions are a bit premature.

Dan