Re: Disappearing sourcecode from D2005

Captain Jake wrote:
> "Atle Smelvær" <atle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> <42ba5bf7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> After update 3. Just worked on some project, and closed it down.
>> Next time I opened it, all my changes for several weeks just
>> disappeared. Looking inside the history view, there is only two
>> other copies and they are very old. But fortunately my source still
>> existed inside the __history folder. So I had to copy it back out
>> again.
>
> Several weeks of changes? Geez. Haven't you ever heard of source
> control??!!
>
>>
>> It's so nice to see that Borland release quality software that I can
>> trust (very ironic).
>
> It is sad to see that some developers are not using professional
> tools like version control. Besides, your gripe is kind of silly. You
> used a new feature of D2005 (the history folder) to get back to
> where you were.
>
>>
>> It's also nice to see that they are using the same strategy on the
>> website. I'm sure it was properly tested before they switched,
>> because there was and are no problems with the new website... (also
>> very ironic).
>
> Borland obviously contracted out the website to a third-party, as it
> would be quite silly for them to do it themselves. That makes your
> complaint above quite ironic.

Jake -

I haven't run into this particular issue with D2005 myself, so I can't
comment on the OP's problem. Your answer strikes me as a bit odd, though.
You seem to be saying that the problem isn't that D2005 lost a bunch of his
work, it's that he didn't have proper measures in place to get back the work
D2005 lost - and since D2005 has a new feature he was able to use to get
back the lost work anyway, that it's silly to complain that D2005 lost the
work in the first place. Is that a fair summary of your position above?

Again, I haven't had this problem myself, but _if in fact_ D2005 with SP3 is
spontaneously failing to save, discarding, or moving the programmer's work,
I don't see how commenting on the OP's version control issues does anything
to change the fact that this is a serious problem with Delphi.

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