(or IDE or VCL improvements)

From: Lauchlan M (LMackinnon_at_Hotmail.com)
Date: 03/08/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:19:57 +1100

> >> Because you don't want to use any of the third party controls that do
> >> this? Many of which are free?
> >
> > I shouldn't have to. Cost is not the issue.
>
> You don't have to. Especially if cost is not the issue. Why complain
about
> something that you can fix?

The fact that there are third party components that make up for the VCL's
shortcomings is no reason for Borland to be lazy and never improve the VCL.
They should be improving these components but basically don't - if anything
they add some new components but rarely if ever improve the old ones.

Similarly, they should have improved the D4-D7 IDE instead of being lazy
about it because there were third party add-ins such as code rush et al.

And the point is not that I or JED are too lazy to find them, or too stingy
to pay for them (neither point being true). The point is that a lot of this
stuff should be provided out of the Delphi box. _Should_ I have to look
around for and evaluate Castalia, Code Rush, etc if I want to have line
numbers shown in my IDE in D7, a 10 year old product? I don't think so.

The only time Borland has improved these things adding things like line
numbers, cold folding etc is when jumping to a whole new IDE - Galileo -
because then they suddenly considered it was worth rethinking these things
for the .net environment, presumably because they got the infrastructure for
most of these changes with the .net framework and didn't have to think too
hard about what was required (copy VS.NET) or how to do it (use the .net
framework). Up till then, there was incredible IDE and VCL inertia.

It strikes me as a slapdash and half-hearted commitment to Delphi 4-7 from
Borland.

Lauchlan M

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