J I think the 'early' release of D7 was more of a political move in order to establish a presence in the .NET dev market. Thing is anyone with half a brain can trim thru the BS and realise that D7 will offer a great alternative to VB (with a common source possible for Linux, Windows and .NET) Wheras VB and VB.NET require a code split (and no direct linux support) C# is .NET only. So M$ is leaving an opening as it trys to blackmail theVB developer base into C# (by making VB.NET less attractive) then why don't they jump ship to Delphi is the aguement Borland are making and establish a single code base with three platforms available
Neven ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy North" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 11:48 AM Subject: RE: [DUG]: Delphi 7 comments... > > MIke's stuff is excellent. I also use his VirtualTreeView. A little bit > of work getting your head around it at first, but WOW! > > What disappoints me the most is that they seem to be lagging so far behind > what the JBuilder team have incorporated in the IDE. > * Source versioning (not really source control though). But including > differences checker in the IDE. > * JavaDoc - wish Borland would just buy Doc-o-matic and incorporate that. > * JBuilder IDE starts slow but at least shuts down also immediately. > Delphi 6 and 7 take forever to shutdown and startup. JBuilder 6 starts up > much faster than Delphi 6 or 7 which is disappointing. That is D7 with no > third party components to load either! > * I am yet to try JBuilder 7 but saw a demo and liked the refactoring > capabilities. Haven't heard anything about that in Delphi 7. > > I think Borland had to include Kylix 3 as a bit of a carrot to even buying > D7. > > All Borland seem to have done is buy 3rd party solutions and incorporate > them. Seems to me that there interests are now lying elsewhere. > > JED > > > The XP Theme stuff in Delphi 7 is actually a freeware component available > > from this [http://www.lischke-online.de/] site. Check out the news item > > about is a bit down the main page. > > > > ********************************************************************** > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify > the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ********************************************************************** > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
