Could you please explain to me why you need .Net right now? It won't run on
Win9x platforms, and its memory and processor constraints mean that the only
people who can run it tolerably are power PC users.
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Mark Jacobs
DK Computing
www.dkcomputing.co.uk
"Des O'Toole" <des>wrote in message news:418f5195$
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| Hi Rodrigo
|
| We're both in the same boat, and share the same outlook.
|
| I've also been forced to evaluate all the migration options and the only
| other thing I'm hoping for is that more 3rd party vendors produce pure .Net
| versions of their components (as Developer Express have), rather than
| VCL.NET versions. At least this way, a migration to C++ VS.NET may not be as
| painful.
|
| In the meantime we're restructuring a lot of our code so that we don't use
| VCL components directly. Instead we use a core subset of highly customised
| derivatives. Hopefully this will make it easier if we then have to switch to
| .NET, or any other environment. For instance, rather than worrying about a
| thousand TForms, we will only have to concentrate on adapting WinForms to
| provide our core, standardised behaviour. As well as hopefully easing
| migration this is also paying dividends in standardising the look and feel
| of our user interface and making the code much cleaner.
|
| But still, fingers crossed for a new BCB.
|
| Des
|
| "Rodrigo Gómez" <
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|>>To everyone:
|>>Even if Borland say anything positive about future developments regarding
|>>BCB (officially) would you trust them to commit to it in the future after
|>>the way we have been treated in the past?
|>
|>There are not much options really. For me, I'm willing to forget and
|>forgive Borland as long as they bring something good to the BCB world
|>again. BCB is such a great tool, and I have sooooo much time, money and
|>experience invested here, that changing this to another framework/language
|>will be too expensive, and improductive, if possible at all. I know it
|>might not be a wise decision to continue with Borland after the lack of a
|>clear path, but me business depends on the products I already have, and I
|>have to continue supporting and creating new features for them for the
|>next 5-10 years maybe (I still have one of my 3 big apps in BCB4!!!), so a
|>fixed IDE and up to date VCL will be a great help, even if it's the last
|>one.
|>
|>I'm trying to find other options for new projects, or new versions of my
|>products, but they are practically limited to Delphi, as I depend on
|>several 3rd party tools that are not available for other platarforms. But
|>the STL is not available to Delphi, and, of course, the 4 years of BCB
|>(yes, I use __finally, __property and so on) code I have must be
|>translated... Bringing BCB to the Delphi world seems to me that will give
|>BCB a clear future (and maybe a much broader audience than now), so I
|>really have high hopes on not having to search for alternatives.
|>
|>--
|>Rodrigo Gómez
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