tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912994624054086771.post5162188413607893636..comments2023-07-01T07:24:52.368-07:00Comments on Delphi Insider: Why now is the best time to upgrade to Delphi XE2Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051286684536695921noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912994624054086771.post-1480753170251170342012-03-23T09:47:28.532-07:002012-03-23T09:47:28.532-07:00Thank you for the offers. I dont think some of th...Thank you for the offers. I dont think some of the posters see the advantage on them.<br /><br />you are stuck in Delphi 7 you have the choice of getting a good price, for a version that will do exactly what your version of Delphi does and MORE. You think FireMonkey is not right yet, fine, let it cook for one more version.<br /><br />But what about 64bit, Unicode, generics, collections, DataSnap. Those ones seemed to be very stable right now and are light years ahead of any old version of Delphi.<br /><br />Complaining about lots of updates, lol, really?<br /><br />again, really?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912994624054086771.post-21302224716996079542012-03-23T02:03:22.052-07:002012-03-23T02:03:22.052-07:00A reason for us to upgrade would be a 64 Bit Versi...A reason for us to upgrade would be a 64 Bit Version of the IDE. Not Firemonkey, Mac Dev and so on. To this day, we had a lot of troubles with the memory consumption of the IDE. Several Times a day the IDE tells us, that it has to less memory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912994624054086771.post-48567982405653011422012-03-23T00:54:25.812-07:002012-03-23T00:54:25.812-07:00It is not Update 5 what is rumored, is Hotfix 1 fo...It is not Update 5 what is rumored, is Hotfix 1 for Update 4... Another fix for the fix... Not a very good selling point. <br />At least it is clear that they are doing efforts trying to fix the all buggy Firemonkey, which I think this is the good selling point: that you are not left alone until the next major version comes, with what it implies: money money money.<br />Hopefully in Update 6 or 7 (NOT in XE3) it is stable enough, so you upgrade because of new features, and not because of bug fixes.LoPiTaLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12549736371732074010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912994624054086771.post-53338736716558984032012-03-22T21:53:49.088-07:002012-03-22T21:53:49.088-07:00Another selling point is that Update 5, a fix to U...Another selling point is that Update 5, a fix to Update 4, is rumored to be around the corner.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912994624054086771.post-22394477705264985902012-03-22T14:27:40.551-07:002012-03-22T14:27:40.551-07:00As much as it pains me to say it, I think our anon...As much as it pains me to say it, I think our anonymous commenter is right. FireMonkey has a lot of potential, but it was released way too early, and it's just <i>painfully</i> bad in its current state.<br /><br />Until such time as it's polished up to at least the same high standard for brand new frameworks as the Delphi 1 VCL, you guys aren't doing yourselves any favors using it as a selling point.Mason Wheelerhttp://tech.turbu-rpg.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912994624054086771.post-38301908061855307232012-03-22T13:42:38.781-07:002012-03-22T13:42:38.781-07:00If you think its cheap then why not just buy it (w...If you think its cheap then why not just buy it (we did), its indeed a good deal for unfortunately kind of a buggy beta release. 4 fixpacks already, what a joke. <br /><br />64 bit; My customers dont ask for it yet and we are missing loads of third party dll's so i'm afraid its not going to happen soon. Thats a pitty, not sure if thats going to change unless we make a couple of realy hard choices.<br /><br />Firemonkey: Personally i think right now firemonkey is kind of a joke, not mature enough and not enough support in the third party world (yet). But that can change quickly and i believe a XE3 or XE4 could be very interesting. I myself am looking forward for a linux relaese instead of that silly old mac ;) <br /><br />Still looking forward to the next delphi releases and hope they are a bit better then the xe2..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com