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

Allen Bauer wrote:

As it happens, its been possible to recompile many 3rd Party D7
components in D2006, as is. This is because there have been almost
no changes between the native VCL/Compiler between D7 and D2006.
A good thing? Not really. I don't use Delphi because of the IDE,
this is a minor consideration for me; and I found the D7 classic
IDE to suit me just fine. Significant improvements/upgrades to the
native compiler and vcl architecture would interest me a whole lot
more.

Uh.. let me get this straight... You're saying that because some code
didn't break that must mean that very few changes were made to VCL?
I was always under the impression that folks liked it when we do a
lot of changes and their source still compiles with no changes. So
in this case I think we succeeded very well since there was a
significant number of VCL changes from the core all the way out to
the individual controls. Now that we have things like function
overloading, default parameters, and other nice language features,
the likelyhood of breaking source in the future is significanly
reduced even more than before we had those language features. I'd say
we're moving in the right direction here.

Allen,

Don't listen to him. He's sniffing glue.

Randy

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