Re: Weird

" Tom Corey" <omtay.oreycay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Chris Burrows wrote:

it would be a great help if Borland published a list of
components that are reliable, or alternatively a blacklist
of ones to avoid.

Impractical. It is not Borland's responsibility to perform quality
testing on the entire market of third party tools - that is the job of
the third party developers.

Probably way too late now but Borland could have had a 'Verified by Borland'
or some such scheme going. Reputable 3rd-party component vendors would have
been willing to pay for the privelege for having such valuable endorsement.

And it would be foolish for Borland to
black list any components because it would open them up to legal action.


I agree. A white-list is far preferable.

If you want to start such a white-list or black-list effort, I'm sure
there would be interest among your fellow developers.

I don't see this as a responsibility for the end-user. Borland have already
got enough people doing their work for free - peer support in these
newsgroups, QC data providers, voluntary sysops etc. etc.

And I'm just as
sure that ther would be a huge range of opinions about the quality of
each and every component you reported on.

Of course, but over a period of time it would be reasonable easy to
distinguish the shiners from the stinkers. I regularly look at appropriate
support forums as part of software purchasing decision making process these
days. They can be very helpful.

--
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
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