Chad Z. Hower writes:
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Joe Hendricks writes:
>>2006 is getting mixed reviews, but even those who
>>say it is stable most dont equate it to the level of "Expected" or
>>"normal" for Delphi.
>
>Disagree..I think it is better(after updates) than D7(after updates)
>& previous releases.
You disagree on mixed reviews? Thats why I said mixed - many are saying
its fine, but there are still a lot of people who have significant
problems with it. Given the mixed reviews - I doubt that the average of
them would allow it to hold up to D7. The bit that I have used 2006 has
been ok, but I still wouldnt put it up there with Delphi 7 for stability. D7
rarely crashed on me and I didnt "worry" when going into it.
Chad, the point one might make is that some customers won't be satisfied
no matter what CodeGear does. If D2006 really is in relevant aspects
more stable than D7, but some people perceive the opposite, I honestly
think it might just be stupid of CodeGear to give Highlander away for
free to those customers.
IME D2006 is significantly *more* stable than Delphi 7 given the following:
a) both are used on PCs with at least twice the recommended amount of
RAM and free HD space
b) both are used with at least the full JEDI JCL + JVCL and some
10-20 other 3rd party component packages and plugins that are updated
every once in a while
c) both are used primarily for Win32 and without Together modelsupport
d) both are used in the way they were respectively primarily designed
to be used (i.e. D2006 in docked mode with the form designed on a tab
instead of floating).
Now, I might be wrong, but I actually haven't seen a single person who
met all four conditions and used a fully hotfixed D2006 on a regular
basis complain about its stability. Most *general* complaints (that
don't focus on specific bugs and issues) I recall fall into the
following categories:
1) D2006 system requirements vs. Delphi 7 system requirements
2) D2006 vs. Delphi 7 w/o 3rd party components
3) Delphi 8 and/or D2005 were bad and the user became significantly less
tolerant when evaluating D2006 compared to when [s]he evaluated Delphi 7 some
years ago
4) D2006 becomes less stable if, for some reason, you want to make it
more like Delphi 7 (floating form designer, component tabs, non docked desktop
etc)
5) Some features that have been added since D7, such as together
modelsupport, aren't 100% bug free.
The obvious point is that no matter what CodeGear does, if D2006 doesn't
make a customer happy for any of the above reasons, Highlander will most
likely not make them any happier. It will have similar system
requirements, it will contain about the same or higher number of
packages, it will probably not be bug free (since Borland/CodeGear have
never claimed their products are bug free), and it will not be based on
the Delphi 7 IDE but the same IDE 2006 is based on. I have faith in CodeGear
to feel justified to predict that the people that are happy with D2006
will be even happier with Highlander, but they won't satisfy customers
who basically complain about fundamentals such as requirements or the
architecture of the IDE.
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Henrick Hellström
www.streamsec.com