Re: Downgrading to D7

Fred Derf wrote:
Hi everyone,

I just decided to give to D7 a second chance and I'm happy with it.

I was wondering if there are more people here who have decided to
downgrade from D2006/2007 to D7, and if they feel that they are missing
anything important. I'm not worried about IDE or VCL features, because
almost all of them can be superseded by thirdparties, but I wonder if
the latest compiler improvements are noticeable at all in your regular
compiled applications.


I should be using D2005 Arch, but am not. I'm sure it has a few features that extends
D7, and I'm sure that D2006 will extend D2005 and that D2007 will extend D2006.
That´s not the point.

The point is that I'm not in the business of "upgrading delphi"(tm) I must have an
environment that suites my needs, in order to have customers paying for whatever I
sell them. They will never buy my products because I'm beatiful. I must be
productive, and between the launch of D2005 and the last hotfix or patch or whatever,
I just produced a LOT more with D7. I just can't emphasize enough how DEEPLY I regret
to spend so much money on it (there's no SA in my country) and being unable to used it.

New features are required, what the heck, we all asked for each one them. The problem
is the IDE. It's obvious, we must be able to use the IDE in order to have access to
all the wonders and the extra-RAD stuff in the New Features. I am sure all those
features will help develop. But what if the IDE don't help? Flicker, unstable, slow,
cannot handle as much projects as the previous version, etc,etc,etc. What good would
be to have the best car in the garage, if I have problems starting it, if I want to
go left the engines dies, if I turn on the radio, air conditioning stops. How can
someone expects to go to work with it. Won't you get the old faithfull? Or a bike?!

I don't buy clichet like "...But you wont be helping the delphi community, industry,
or company...". I work hard to win my money, and I won't spend it in any thing that
don't work the way I want. If CG wants my money, they must launch a product that will
make me want to buy it.

We need a better IDE. CG already has demonstrated that they have the WILL to do it. I
just can't believe there's already an update for D2007, this is _good_ for the delphi
community, industry and company. This is what we expect. They are working closer then
Borland did the last few years. I am sure the upcoming D2007 will be a product worth
each cent spend on it.

Clément
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