Re: Captain Jake's Top Ten List of what I'd like to see in thenextversionof Delphi

John Jacobson wrote:

Brian Moelk <bmoelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
<44a43fbe$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
You want DLL hell with DCU's? I don't.

I would prefer it to being stuck in a very old version of Delphi simply
because it would cost a substantial amount of money to upgrade the
components used.

Jake, not personal ok!

That is exactly the mindset that is creating for any thirdparty component
developer. Buy once, use forever. You're ready to pay for a new IDE to make
your life easier, nicer, fancier, whatever. You're ready to invest time to
move your projects over (and please don't tell us that it won't take any
time). At the same time you now expect the other 3rd party companies to invest
that time too (and believe me its MUCH more involved than you think: code
changes, testing, IDE integration changes and oh, did i mention testing?). Now
there's the problem: you expect them to deliver that free of charge forever?
Seriously do ou have any idea how much time is involved in e.g. still
supporting D5 and D6?

A non changing DCU format won't help here. The RTL is *always* going to
change, thus all other units' dependencies/interfaces have to be checked. The
testing wouldn't be taken away anyways, cause there will also alway be slight
changes in functionality somewhere in the RTL or VCL you rely on.

--

Hannes Danzl [NexusDB Developer]
Newsgroup archive at http://www.tamaracka.com/search.htm
.