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

Dave Nottage [TeamB] wrote:

It can do a lot to address the cost of upgrading when the vendor
doesn't support subsequent versions.

Not necessarily. If I can't compile the new VCL against the old library, due to VCL architecture changes, then I'm still stuck. In this case, I'd have to have the source to resolve the issue in the third-party library.

Delphi R&D has done an excellent job with /source/ backwards compatibility. But there are still the occasional changes that break that compatibility. Otherwise, a component vendor would simply have to recompile new DCUs/BPLs to support the next version.

And many times, that simply isn't the case...
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