BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Which one to upgrade? Delphi 6 or 7?          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Upgrade View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Lior Guest Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 7:14 am    Post subject: Which one to upgrade? Delphi 6 or 7? Hi All, I need to know, is Delphi 6 stable ? is Delphi 7 stable ? which one is better for core programming ? We currently work with Delphi 5. We want to upgrade to delphi 6, mostly because the XML support. We use delphi for low level programming. we need no web services, database enhancments or internet stuff. We had back experience with Delphi 4 in the past, because it was quite unstalbe. Although we do not need the features of delphi 7 we might need it in the future, so if it is stable enough we will migrate to it. This is quite a task because we have about 15-20 delphi stations. Thanks ahead, Lior Back to top Dmeister Guest Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 1:13 pm    Post subject: Re: Which one to upgrade? Delphi 6 or 7? Definately D7 -- it fixed a number of bugs introduced by D6. "Lior" <liorbo (AT) nice (DOT) com> wrote Quote: Hi All, I need to know, is Delphi 6 stable ? is Delphi 7 stable ? which one is better for core programming ? We currently work with Delphi 5. We want to upgrade to delphi 6, mostly because the XML support. We use delphi for low level programming. we need no web services, database enhancments or internet stuff. We had back experience with Delphi 4 in the past, because it was quite unstalbe. Although we do not need the features of delphi 7 we might need it in the future, so if it is stable enough we will migrate to it. This is quite a task because we have about 15-20 delphi stations. Thanks ahead, Lior Back to top Betsy Guest Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 9:36 pm    Post subject: Re: Which one to upgrade? Delphi 6 or 7? Lior, I have just recently upgraded from D5 to D7 and am very happy with it. The transition was a little rough at first, not because of Delphi at all... just an old dog here struggling with new tricks. I find it to be VERY solid and stable. No problem. I'd go for it... all the way... D7. Don't know what 7 has that 6 doesn't... but know that I'm not having any issues, other then my own with 7... b "Lior" <liorbo (AT) nice (DOT) com> wrote Quote: Hi All, I need to know, is Delphi 6 stable ? is Delphi 7 stable ? which one is better for core programming ? We currently work with Delphi 5. We want to upgrade to delphi 6, mostly because the XML support. We use delphi for low level programming. we need no web services, database enhancments or internet stuff. We had back experience with Delphi 4 in the past, because it was quite unstalbe. Although we do not need the features of delphi 7 we might need it in the future, so if it is stable enough we will migrate to it. This is quite a task because we have about 15-20 delphi stations. Thanks ahead, Lior Back to top Andrew Skinner Guest Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 3:37 pm    Post subject: Re: Which one to upgrade? Delphi 6 or 7? You could buy D8 and get D7 free. On the other hand it is well known that you should only buy odd numbered versions of Delphi. <G>. Andrew Back to top Carl Caulkett Guest Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 7:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Which one to upgrade? Delphi 6 or 7? Peter Below (TeamB) wrote: Quote: Well, D8 is really Delphi for .NET 1.0, so it is an odd-numbered version <G>. I like your thinking! Have you, or are you planning to move to D8 in any shape or form? It's really rather good, I think. -- Carl Back to top Peter Below (TeamB) Guest Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 7:55 pm    Post subject: Re: Which one to upgrade? Delphi 6 or 7? In article <3ff19bb7 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com>, Andrew Skinner wrote: Quote: You could buy D8 and get D7 free. On the other hand it is well known that you should only buy odd numbered versions of Delphi. <G>. Well, D8 is really Delphi for .NET 1.0, so it is an odd-numbered version <G>. -- Peter Below (TeamB) Use the newsgroup archives : http://www.mers.com/searchsite.html http://www.tamaracka.com/search.htm http://groups.google.com http://www.prolix.be Back to top Peter Below (TeamB) Guest Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 12:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Which one to upgrade? Delphi 6 or 7? In article <3ff87133 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com>, Carl Caulkett wrote: Quote: Well, D8 is really Delphi for .NET 1.0, so it is an odd-numbered version <G>. I like your thinking! Have you, or are you planning to move to D8 in any shape or form? It's really rather good, I think. Well, i plan to look at it but it is unlikely that i will use it for any serious programming in the nearer future. .NET is 90% hype, IMO. It contains a number of good ideas, no argument. But at the moment it is just another layer of complexity on top of an already very complex system, requiring more memory, more CPU power, more disk space. It probably has true advantages to existing solutions in some areas (ASP.NET, for example), which are of no interest to me. And of course you tie yourself to MS server tools if you use then (ASP.NET apps will not run on anything other than IIS as webserver, as far as i know). I program mostly for a closed group at my employer, the environment is Win2K and Terminal server, and will stay this way for the forseable future. Many of the PCs we have in use would not have enough resources to run .NET apps with decent performance, and our admins would likely violently oppose any move to install the .NET framework on all machines (they have enough trouble keeping the current platform running)... -- Peter Below (TeamB) Use the newsgroup archives : http://www.mers.com/searchsite.html http://www.tamaracka.com/search.htm http://groups.google.com http://www.prolix.be Back to top Josh Guest Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 2:58 am    Post subject: Re: Which one to upgrade? Delphi 6 or 7? Quote: I find it to be VERY solid and stable. No problem. I'd go for it... all the way... D7. Don't know what 7 has that 6 doesn't... but know that I'm not having any issues, other then my own with 7... I'm happy for you and I also believe you. I however am quite addicted to reading old newsgroup articles with the use of Google (that's where I find most of my answers) and I can only conclude that Delphi 7 is not that stable as some people might think. I've read so many people complaining about Delphi 7, heck, some people were even mad and considered giving up on Borland products. I do think that a lot of these problems are related to components. But I also think that one should use some common sense. Delphi 6 needed 2 updates and 3 runtime updates. And until now we haven't seen any for Delphi, other than a few small patches. Why? Because all was already fixed in D6? Of course not. Under the hood of D7 a lot has changed. Thinking that Delphi 7 doesn't need a service pack is wishful thinking in my opion. Don't tell me that Borland has learned form Delphi 1,2,3,4,5,6 and now suddenly did everything ok in Delphi 7....yeah right. Just search in Google groups for "Delphi 7 Update" and read how many posts are related to people desperately waiting for a service pack. I still use Delphi 6 and I'm going to switch to either Delphi 7 (after a descent service pack) or Delphi 8 (after a descent service pack). 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