Re: Yet another reason for openTools API attention

Sergio Sette wrote:
I think the OTA community is smaller than expected. The main reason because
not so many people are interested in OTA is the lack of documentation and of
course the absence of the (right) focus on it.

Agreed. IMO, the OTA community doesn't have to be that big (relative to
Delphi as a whole), it just needs to be big enough to provide stuff for
BDS that CodeGear doesn't have time/resources in doing.

Yes, but in order to have a critical mass the people must be encouraged to
write OTA code.

Agreed 100%.

I think many Delphi developer simple does't know the OTA existence. No
documentation, no focus, no "marketing". OTA is a sort of "magic thing" used
just by third party components vendors...
And for people like me (i use OTA for my products) is a pain because working
without the basic documentation is at least very improductive.

Agreed.

Hopefully yes...

Indeed.

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