> Just curious, why is this being done anyway? I think this is the only > software product I have used that has this "feature." I fail to see the > usefulness from way up here above the source code, and I don't have time > to look deeper. But still curious as to why everybody has to rename all > their function calls between major releases. > > I'm on Delphi 7.0 and have never been forced to change anything because > of a new release, since Delphi 1.0. And closer to home, From PC DOS > Oracle to 8.0i Oracle. Seems like a lot of additional work, and would > like to understand why.
This prevents existing code from being broken in subtle ways. If you get the new version it won't compile, rather than giving you an application that seems to work without very in depth testing.
