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2005-05-12 06:40:24 AM
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Robert Love writes:
 

At 00:40:24, 12.05.2005, Michael Anonymous writes:
actually do what people want them to do.
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Rudy Velthuis [TeamB]
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Questions on this survey are very different from past surveys. I
don't remember ever seeing a Delphi survey to ask how you feel about
your most recent Delphi purchase compared to prior Delphi purchases.
 

<< Questions on this survey are very different from past surveys. I don't
remember ever seeing a Delphi survey to ask how you feel about your most
recent Delphi purchase compared to prior Delphi purchases.>>
The problem is that they ask for a comparison to the previous purchased
Delphi release. At least as I am concerned, the answer would be completely
different if my previous Delphi purchase was Delphi 7 versus D8. Unfortunately, my
previous Delphi purchase was D8, and since the Delphi 8 and Delphi 2005 releases
are both nothing but alpha/beta software, they're equally bad. Delphi 7 is IMO a
pretty good release and that is what I am using for my current Win32 projects.
For .NET development I personally prefer VS 2003/2005 with C# and Chrome.
Ole Willy Tuv
 

Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] writes:
 

Patrticularly the question 'what one feature would you most like to see in
the next Delphi?'
Some suggestions for next time:
1.22. Are you currently developing for .NET and if not when do you plan to
start?
Yes, currently developing for .NET
No, will start within 6 months
No, will start within 12 months
No, will start more than 12 months from now
No, and I do not know when
No, and definitely will not be starting
I don't think you give us enough options. You'd be better off (IMO) asking
Which of the following best describes your adoption of .net
- never looked at it
- am evaluating it and done some test projects
- am seriously using it and deploying projects
- plan to deploy next projects inthe next X months
- don't plan to use .net - I want to stick with native programming for the
medium term
- don't plan to use .net - I want to stick with native programming for the
long term
etc.
1.24. Do you plan to migrate Win32 based Delphi VCL Win projects to .NET?
Yes, all of my existing projects
Yes, most of my existing projects
Yes, some of my existing projects
Yes, one of my existing projects
No, will not be migrating existing projects to .NET
There is no way any one of those options given would be the correct answer
for me.
On this one, my answer depends really on what happens with .net 2, Avalon,
Longhorn, how many peole have .net on their OS, how I feel about .net over
time, etc.
Also, perhaps an option like
- I don't plan to use .net but can I please have a native Win64 now?
would have got many responses in this ng! <g>
1.37. How do you feel Borland Core SDP fits into your organization?
information on Borland Core SDP can be found at
www.borland.com/core_sdp/
We need Core SDP for our Delphi development team
We need Core SDP for our entire organization including our Delphi
development team(s)
Core SDP does not fit our needs
I'm not yet familiar with Core SDP
Other please specify
This is a loaded question! Are you trying to do marketing in your survey?
You might instead give options like
- we use Core SDP
- we have evaluated Core SDP and are considering adopting it
- we have evaluated Core SDP and it does not suit our needs (which probably
really means it does not suit our budget)
- we have not evaluated Core SDP
I think " We need Core SDP for our Delphi development team" (or entire
organization) does not really describe the current state of where most
companies think they are.
1.40. Which source control management system do you use
None, we don't use an SCM
Borland StarTeam
CVS
Rational ClearCase
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
Subversion
A hosted service (ie SourceForge) please specify
Other or 3rd party SCM please specify
The recent FinalBuilder server asked whether people used
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
Borland StarTeam
Serena Version Manager (PVCS)
QSC Team Coherence
Subversion
QuamaSoft QVCS
SourceGear Vault
FreeVCS
JediVCS
SourceOffsite
Surround SCM
Accurev
Rational ClearCase
Perforce
mks SourceIntegrity
Code Coop
ComponentSoftware RCS
Other
None
CVS
I think you could add a few more of the commonly used options in to this
question
1.42. Which documentation type is the most important for your work?
Getting Started
Conceptual overviews
Procedural (How-to)
Application API topics (VCL, ECO API, database classes, etc)
IDE Dialog topics (IDE dialogs including Wizards)
Compiler directives
Compiler error messages
Command line switches
This might better have been checkboxes rather than radio buttons. For me,
there is no one single most important type of documentation. Exept perhaps
the area where I need information right now! <g>
 

Lauchlan M writes:
Delphi yet?
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I just realized what I'd like to see added in the future....
The one thing most of the developers I work have the most trouble with is
spelling errors in our forms, buttons, etc. It would be nice to have some
sort of spell check of captions, hints, etc. (lord knows how this would be
implemented)....
Jeff
"Michael Swindell (Borland)" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes

it (eg Calibre RM, StarTeam).
In any case it makes as much or more sense than the options that were in the
original question, IMO.
Lauchlan Mackinnon
 

Also it does not make much sense.
My last purchase was D7, since then I have been on SA. So the last version I
had was D8, but I don't know what that would tell Borland. I installed it
had a play for about one session, and then later uninstalled it when the HD
was running low on space.
Lauchlan M
 

Paul Dolen writes:
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Ole Willy Tuv writes:
according to that, then they will be able to correlate things just fine.
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when it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by
minding other people's business." - Eric Hoffer
 

Lauchlan M writes:
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stupidity." - Harlan Ellison
 

Wayne Niddery [TeamB] writes:
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Craig Stuntz [TeamB] writes:
on the welcome page is the recent project list. If there is something
new, I wouldn't know.
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