Re: Which is the best lightweight and high performance framework for writing a networked collaborative system?

I didn't mean Indy is bad or good,

Well.. To me Indy has always been a bad experience.

And the reason is, while it's a part of Delphi, its control is not.

Which means there's no telling whether a point upgrade will not paly
havoc with your code --sometimes whole classes get renamed/deleted,
sometimes the properties vanish, other times the rest of the API --all
this without a hint or documentation...

IOW, in my experience, Indy has always been unstable.

I have nothing against a opensource project being in constant flux, but
it being part of Delphi, I would expect it to be a little more
attentive to being backwards compatibility.

Frankly, I wish either ICS [ http://www.overbyte.be ] or RTC [
http://www.realthinclient.com ] or even Synapse [
http://synapse.ararat.cz ] were delivered as default with Delphi.

Indeed, I wander what Indy has that ICS (or the others) don't?
.

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